Prize crossword 0604

Cryptic across
1 Why best arty type is in Welsh university (11)
9 Chap to come a cropper hiding west of Ireland abbess (7)
10 Charge around this morning, regularly popping in to see David’s great-grandmother (5)
11 One gets to fish all round dynasty’s land in southern China (5)
12 Ethiopian clubbed by coppers heading towards Eritrea’s western border (7)
13 An underage BSE-affected piece of beef (8,5)
16 Love to get three points against New Zealand, being famous for this! (3-4)
18 Indian chief sees her cavorting in the arms of some Greek character (5)
20 Tipped off joiner for wood (5)
21 Money from South American source in pub almost finished the girl (7)
22 Has Athena, re Zen, still not found the Redeemer? (3,8)

Cryptic down
2 Wood and lake in Wales where old Bob resides (5)
3 Tlaloc of the Aztecs managed to trap one pet jumping up (4-3)
4 Small boats alongside, British, light in weight. What the Dickens is that? (8,2,3)
5 Proceeds reach target within two quarters (5)
6 Sounding off near Balham? (7)
7 Assyrian king’s arsenal Shem destroyed (11)
8 Combined arithmetic functions arrive here in Manhattan (5,6)
14 Ephraimite used by David to carry each weight through Elah at last (7)
15 Ringed by a number, setter turns and runs (7)
17 Scottish isle where an indefinite number support a bishop (5)
19 Leafy street in the outskirts of Honiton is a safe place (5)

Quick across
1 Emperor of Rome who made Christianity the official religion in 324 (11)
9 Capital of the Dutch province of North Holland (7)
10 ‘New Labour’ prime minister (5)
11 Influences; swings (5)
12 Normandy town, capital of the Orne department (7)
13 Ian Fleming’s second James Bond novel; eighth in the sequence of films (4,3,3,3)
16 German pioneer in immunology (1854-1915) whose ‘magic bullet’ cured syphilis (7)
18 Brochette (5)
20 Recipe direction: relax! (5)
21 Abbey or priory church; cathedral (7)
22 Mervyn Peake’s series of fantasy novels filmed for BBC in 2000 (11)

Quick down
2 Japan’s third city (5)
3 Old European coal-mining region now mostly in SW Poland (7)
4 Comedy by George Bernard Shaw (1894) (4,3,3,3)
5 Register; log (5)
6 Applied a delicate or subtle degree/shade of difference (7)
7 Shingle strand in Dorset forming the coastline between Bridport and Portland (6,5)
8 State of NE Germany, capital Potsdam (11)
14 Affliction of giddiness (7)
15 Father of Samuel (7)
17 Religion, the name when translated meaning ‘resignation’ or ‘submission’ (5)
19 —– Motel, location for Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) (5)

Entries to Crossword 0604, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected] (Answers in by August 7)

Cryptic answers to No 0603
Across: 6 Aidan, 7 Ophrah, 9 Chat, 10 Oratorio, 11 Phoenicians, 13 Bartholomew, 15 Caesarea, 17 Grid, 18 Shinto, 19 Galal.
Down: 1 Bishop, 2 Dartmoor, 3 Roman collar, 4 Ohio, 5 Darius, 8 Mount Hermon, 12 Armagnac, 13 Baasha, 14 Weimar, 16 Sind.

Quick answers to No 0603
Across: 6 Mamre, 7 Evelyn, 9 Graz, 10 Needless, 11 Pontificate, 13 Invocations, 15 Sao Paulo, 17 Isle, 18 Lugosi, 19 Carmi.
Down: 1 Satrap, 2 Brezhnev, 3 Benediction, 4 Deal, 5 Bysshe, 8 Antiochus IV, 12 Adoniram, 13 Icarus, 14 Salome, 16 Ploy.

Winners (0602 Cryptic) Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Dr Gregory Porilo, London SW17.
Winners (0602 Quick) Francis Beswick, Stretford, Greater Manchester; Francis Bailess, Leicester