Cryptic across
3 State in bridge before I prepare to deal (11)
7 Numbers language born out of Jewish teacher’s
involvement in account (6)
8 Dawn, as seen through sky lights (6)
9 Cosy up to dishonest, leery characters (6)
10 Balder, Dad’s at home after overdose (4)
11 Skin dog and cut off its tail (4)
13 Nahor’s wife read line in a book (6)
17 Capernaum synagogue boss poured amphora, drenching one next to our lot (6)
18 Girl in the Bible’s plain to see by the sea (6)
19 Henry VIII in church, for instance, perhaps hampered Sue (7,4)
Cryptic down
1 Like a roll about, cloaking the spirit of the afterlife (6)
2 Chicken, there’s only one way to run (6)
3 Two letters from Paul point to superior architecture (11)
4 Do well, catching ninety fish (5)
5 Eleven a side? (4)
6 Rush round it somehow, being a ‘dubious relic’... (5,6)
12 ...phrase is amended to read ‘something celestial’ (6)
14 Baby’s a little girl (5)
15 Heavy cloak draped over the last of faithful in here to worship (6)
16 There’s a water feature with no banks in Wisley (4)
Quick across
3 Made or became stronger (9,2)
7 Son of the author of an eponymous OT book: Greek name for an Ammonite servant in Nehemiah (6)
8 Tolkien’s Dark Lord (6)
9 (East Indian) sailor (6)
10 Abominable Snowman (4)
11 Nasty smell (slang) (4)
13 Country that took Media and Babylon, the start of an empire that lasted until Alexander (6)
17 African antelope: 50s’ Chevy! (6)
18 Advocate of a form of Communism (6)
19 Babylonian guard who burnt down the Temple in Jerusalem (11)
Quick down
1 One of three Greek goddesses, the spirits of punishment (6)
2 Ask for or request earnestly (6)
3 Miracle described in Matthew (3,5,3)
4 OT book; prophet in the time of Jeroboam II (5)
5 Headland: Scottish water (4)
6 Parable described in Luke (8,3)
12 In cooking, pour liquor over a dish and ignite (6)
14 Surname of Burt Lancaster’s Oscar-winning character portrayal in the film of the same name: film composer Bernstein (5)
15 Kind of worsted: badly made (6)
16 Genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0458: Across: 8 Eglon, 9 Ipanema, 10 Ataroth, 11 Aroma, 12 Mast, 13 Beeswax, 17 Matthew, 19 Siam, 22 Elfin, 24 Idumaea, 25 Toxteth, 26 Ashes. Down: 1 Red Army, 2 All at sea, 3 Endow, 4 Tishbe, 5 Dadaist, 6 Nero, 7 Pavan, 14 Ali Pasha, 15 Othniel, 16 Embassy, 18 Elisha, 20 Vesta, 21 Judas, 23 Foxy.
Quick answers to No 0458: Across: 8 Amasa, 9 Aramaic, 10 Nirvana, 11 Adyta, 12 Erse, 13 Chaucer, 17 Permian, 19 Loki, 22 Ophir, 24 Bernice, 25 Erastus, 26 Ounce. Down: 1 Rainier, 2 Lacrosse, 3 Barak, 4 Kazakh, 5 Lazarus, 6 Pacy, 7 Scrag, 14 Etonians, 15 Amorite, 16 Nineveh, 18 Abbess, 20 Bogey, 21 Argos, 23 Hoar.
Crossword winners
Winners (0457 Cryptic): Mrs R Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury; David Moyes, Darlington.
Winners (0457 Quick): Ursula Donnelly, County Down; David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sudoku 0459
Solution 0458
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