Cryptic across
5 Landing in Crete for Paul made fear vanish (4,6)
7 Labyrinth where, during the war, woman hid retreating gunners (6)
8 Church language at home is not the Roman way (6)
9 Top racecourse for tax revenue (4)
11 They disagree with the church, sheer nonsense about a flipping quote (8)
13 British regiment infiltrate a German crack force, not out to get sniper (8)
14 Saul’s agent died before George, being semi-retired (4)
15 He desecrated a museum, the first in London (6)
17 Jean, he produced a note in Hebrew (6)
19 Judges’ elevated position is but to Roman fixing (5,5)
Cryptic down
1 Fashionable Christian name? (4)
2 He kills Israelite idolaters, acquires conclusively hard wood hereabout (8)
3 Ball played with in Rugby’s cricket ground (4)
4 Declared support for international force, but not made explicit (8)
5 It’s formally Sinatra’s preserve to become a brother (10)
6 Place revolutionary goes on the first of September to hide during the bad months (10)
10 Predator uncommonly showing a sign of remorse, perhaps (8)
12 Locks rented property’s outer perimeters (8)
16 Austrian city on the Berlin-Zurich line (4)
18 Sensation in slang coming across an irregular verb that’s not? (4)
Quick across
5 ---------- Chorus, integral section of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (10)
7 Name given to Moses’ father-in-law, Reuel, in the KJV (6)
8 Flowering shrub, a subgenus of Rhododendron (6)
9 Greek goddess, the personification of Earth (4)
11 OT forebear, term now more in use than patriarch and matriarch (8)
13 Pay particular care to understand this bit! (4,4)
14 Queen of the Greek gods (4)
15 Hindu festival celebrating the end of the monsoon (either spelling) (6)
17 Opera by Georges Bizet (1875) (6)
19 Inhabitants of the Promised Land before the Israelites (10)
Quick down
1 Valley where David fought Goliath (4)
2 Deliver an oration in grandiloquent style (8)
3 Scottish island: French mountain range (4)
4 Jewish name for Esther (8)
5 City in the Roman province of Asia associated with the waterfalls of stone at Pamukkale (10)
6 Alternative name for the waterway which in Num/TJB is called ‘Suph’ (3,2,5)
10 One from Dixieland, for example (8)
12 Companion of Paul, sent as a missionary to Galatia (8)
16 Modern country based on ancient Mesopotamia (4)
18 David’s great-grandmother, a Moabite woman who moved to Bethlehem (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0456: Across: 1 Anak, 3 Laodicea, 9 Alexander, 10 Loo, 11 Apsis, 13 Ezekiel, 14 Talmud, 15 Matins, 18 Krishna, 20 Extol, 22 Ayr, 23 Bedazzled, 25 Montreux, 26 Diss. Down: 1 Abana, 2 Axe, 4 Andrew, 5 Dirge, 6 Calvinist, 7 Apollos, 8 Nassau, 12 Soldier on, 14 Take aim, 16 Arezzo, 17 Landau, 19 Heber, 21 Lidos, 24 Lei.
Quick answers to No 0456: Across: 1 Capo, 3 Epigraph, 9 Purgatory, 10 Rob, 11 Nones, 13 Balance, 14 Unzips, 15 Jairus, 18 Sirocco, 20 Endor, 22 Vat, 23 Elizabeth, 25 Disperse, 26 Jamb. Down: 1 Capon, 2 Par, 4 Phoebe, 5 Ghyll, 6 Aaron’s rod, 7 Hebrews, 8 Pass up, 12 Nazarites, 14 Unsaved, 16 Age gap, 17 Bogies, 19 Crete, 21 Rahab, 24 Era.
Crossword winners
Winners (0455 Cryptic): Mrs R Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury, Wiltshire; David Moyes, Darlington, County Durham
Winners (0455 Quick): Julia Tucker, Wellington, Somerset; Mrs NM Sackwood, Farnham, Surrey
Sudoku 0457
Solution 0456
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