1 Egyptian power is in gunnery in the end. So be it (4-2)
4 One gets smothered by a church temperance movement here in the Peloponnese (6)
9 He with the foresight to
master the Italian and Greek character (7)
10 Find iron-clad US special forces in a ditch (5)
11 Architectural style in the
beginning dominated old roadsides in China (5)
12 Soldier’s French girl to dance piece Adam wrote (7)
13 Near protest disguised in prayer (11)
18 Libyan site of expedition to find oil is lost (7)
20 Spiritual leader’s cut short a timid type (5)
22 Stop Lazarus being interred within the cloister… (5)
23 …Jeremiah’s burial place says the photo, fuzzy with the end cut off (7)
24 Not a zip to be seen in the old musical, reflected Samuel’s naughty girl (6)
25 Sailor’s stalking one extremely skittish love goddess (6)
Cryptic down
1 With army’s first barrage the artillery contained, repelled, a lot of ships (6)
2 Mathematician’s not radical, is, as a rule, bending (5)
3 Don’t discard what the Tour de France is about after run on drugs (7)
5 Coppers get very loud putting on restraints… (5)
6 …with some blood to answer for being free (7)
7 Tips for old flame getting caught by mirrors (6)
8 Announcin’, approachin’ on dawn, an event in Bethlehem? (6,5)
14 A chap with a street map finds Zadok’s boy (7)
15 Phrases sherpas used more than once for angels? (7)
16 Little lad on the booze equals oblivion (6)
17 Command to come often to this place? (6)
19 President of old airline carries this morning (5)
21 Do moan when left surrounded (5)
Quick across
1 Smother, suppress (6)
4 Narcotic (6)
9 Head of a Levitical family (7)
10 Large edible ray of the N Atlantic (5)
11 Artist’s stand (5)
12 Descendant of Esau, whose people settled in in the Negev (7)
13 From which God spoke to Moses (7,4)
18 One who summons Muslims to prayer (7)
20 Mother-of-pearl (5)
22 Word appearing in the OT meaning the underworld or the place for departed souls (5)
23 Youngest son of Aaron and Elisheba (7)
24 Ostentatious (6)
25 Serfs, villeins (6)
Quick down
1 Determined (6)
2 Conventions (5)
3 Body of troops arranged in a line: stratum (7)
5 Basil-based sauce (5)
6 Curer of Paul’s blindness in Damascus (7)
7 Shoe hole for lacing (6)
8 Diplomatic representative of the Pope (11)
14 Small four-stringed guitar (7)
15 Wailing female spirit (7)
16 Diverted (6)
17 Wreckage, detritus (6)
19 Peoples, Bantu-speakers, of SE Africa (5)
21 Musical ensemble, usually jazz (5)
Winners (0436 Cryptic): Gregory Porilo, Upper Tooting; Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells Winners (0436 Quick): Mrs A Firth, Snettisham; David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sudoku 0438
Solution 0437
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