Cryptic across
7 Dog one from Strasbourg (8)
8 Chap’s going back to the old country (4)
9 How Americans familiarize with the East (6)
10 Justify copper joining ahead of a man of the cloth (6)
11 Parts of a circle to scan randomly – about the first of twenty (7)
13 Paul’s companion in the ship is a stern-looking Arab chap (5)
15 Native American’s fat and become old (5)
17 Ready to sit, shaking after big dipper? (7)
20 Eat around six – that’s splendid (6)
21 Store grain here by morning, all being well, in Jerusalem (6)
23 Location in Tuscany to knock back a drink (4)
24 Virginia’s place one found on the Thames (8)
Cryptic down
1 Goth in the French style’s endlessly wealthy (6)
2 Venture in US state renouncing English statutes (4)
3 Tax exemption for hospital underwritten by popular old chap from Canaan (7)
4 Bloke in Genesis seen with a small number raising a church (5)
5 Student of 19’s language calling for support during robbery (8)
6 Sacred writings become darker when appearing on net briefly (6)
12 Christian about to be identified in old English (8)
14 Cloaking the clergyman’s habit? (7)
16 Roman general’s over the moon, captain reported (6)
18 Yokels loading wagon on board (6)
19 Bling from Paris she cast out, reading Hebrews (5)
22 Buddhist reformer incarcerated in Bedlam asylum (4)
Quick across
7 Capital of Manitoba, Canada (8)
8 One of the seven deadly sins (4)
9 Bully: Trojan hero (6)
10 Take exception to: article (6)
11 Capriciously (2,1,4)
13 Cremona violin-making family (5)
15 Predominantly Muslim people, and their language, living chiefly in northern Nigeria (5)
17 Galatian town where Paul was met with violent opposition on his first mission (7)
20 Saul’s capital, north of Jerusalem (6)
21 Suffolk river: English author and social critic (6)
23 Pre-Columbian power in Central America (4)
24 Friend of Achilles, king of Ithaca (8)
Quick down
1 Second son of Jacob (6)
2 Original spelling of the King of England, 1016-35 (4)
3 Joseph’s younger son, Jacob’s favourite grandson (7)
4 King of Moab killed by Ehud (5)
5 Brother of 1 (8)
6 Black and white Eurasian long-legged wading bird (6)
12 Adherent of a major branch of Methodism (8)
14 Pronounceable word or name formed from initial letters of others (7)
16 One of the conspirators against Moses, all of whom were swallowed up by the earth (6)
18 Diacritical mark (two dots placed over a vowel) to indicate a change in sound in German, for instance (6)
19 Christian woman of Corinth, sometimes spelt with a diaeresis (not an 18!) (5)
22 Occident (4)
Entries to Crossword 0611, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email [email protected] (Answers in by September 25)
Cryptic answers to No 0610 Across: 5 Gallio, 7 Bombay, 9 Anak, 10 Chelubai, 11 Abigail, 13 Stoic, 15 Idols, 16 Livorno, 18 Chaldaea, 19 Iraq, 21 Ascend, 22 On hold. Down: 1 Maon, 2 Colchis, 3 Abner, 4 Galatian, 6 Lake Galilee, 8 Mount Moriah, 12 Buddhist, 14 Tinamou, 17 R and B, 20 Axle.
Winners (0609 Cryptic) Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae; Fr A Dearman, Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Winners (0609 Quick) Margaret Moyes, Darlington, County Durham; Paula Lewis, Mickleover, Derbyshire
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