Cryptic across
7 Achaia proconsul’s cheek, going against a Greek deity (6)
8 Throw up name for a blissful afterlife (6)
9 A little wet: force a change in headgear and get a brolly! (4)
10 Our mixed reviews for oration’s opening... (8)
11 ...together, heard trouble for the king... (5,3,5)
13 ... about huge rent money for Daniel’s mates (5,5,3)
16 Balkans take Greek island initially over transport (8)
18 Rendered 3, for instance, ruddy half-cut (4)
19 Kind of spell that got worked in the 60s; it’s at heart, a rum thing (6)
20 Pay back for English residing in avenue (6)
Cryptic down
1 Joseph’s here more reliably than Ezra (8)
2 Syrian city’s very quiet after drink gets round (6)
3 At last a girl, one of the witches there, makes attempt at a sacred hymn (8,5)
4 Lent, it was, the day before for making pancakes (6,7)
5 Noise crows make, perch being upset by young Macbeth (6)
6 Country’s rugby record is put up on high (4)
12 One of 13’s crazily gone down, allegedly, primarily, over litter (8)
14 Alien is, in executive officer’s quote, ‘ascending’ (6)
15 With the London Phil regularly turning up, golf around London’s odd, it’s true (6)
17 Has beef been added to the menu, just a little bit, in England? (4)
Quick across
7 Aldous, Julian, etc, members of an enlightened British family descended on the maternal side from Thomas Arnold of Rugby School (6)
8 Leather from male cattle (6)
9 New Testament book (4)
10 Lacking in sympathy (8)
11 Belief in the union of the human and the divine (13)
13 The Romans’ Mare Nostrum (13)
16 Cornish former tin- and copper-mining town (8)
18 Phoenician trading centre (4)
19 Roman goddess of fertility: ------ me (responsory following the Requiem Mass) (6)
20 Greek name for a country with nebulous borders abutting Macedonia to the north and east of Thessalonica (6)
Quick down
1 Gardening implement (5,3)
2 Hebrew prophet featured in both books of Kings (6)
3 Founder of the Persian Empire (c 600-529 BC) (5,3,5)
4 RC clerics operating in the community, often taking up lay jobs after WWII, especially in France (6-7)
5 Bar exercise: be cheerful! (4,2)
6 Object of worship (4)
12 One of Daniel’s three companions in Babylon (8)
14 Inspired or permeated with (6)
15 Someone legally empowered to witness signatures, certify document validity and to take depositions (6)
17 WWII enemy alliance (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0461: Across: 7 Kenite, 8 Elohim, 9 Stye, 10 Abu Dhabi, 11 Artemis, 13 Javan, 15 Media, 17 Babylon, 20 Victoria, 21 Over, 22 Fire up, 23 Heresy. Down: 1 Nectar, 2 Nile, 3 Denarii, 4 Rebus, 5 Top-heavy, 6 Gilboa, 12 Epistles, 14 Malachi, 16 Elicit, 18 Odessa, 19 Crypt, 21 Omri.
Quick answers to No 0461: Across: 7 Venial, 8 Adonis, 9 Fife, 10 Amorites, 11 Capstan, 13 Caper, 15 Fauna, 17 Rebecca, 20 Napthali, 21 Erne, 22 Raffia, 23 Dorcas. Down: 1 Medina, 2 Nike, 3 Eleazar, 4 Aaron, 5 Boniface, 6 Nicene, 12 Sanctify, 14 Megiddo, 16 Avatar, 18 Conrad, 19 Cacao, 21 Ezra.
Crossword winners
Winners (0460 Cryptic): Fr William Young, Barking; Mrs R Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury.
Winners (0460 Quick): Lucia Hughes, Tyrone; Aurora Taylor, Co. Down.
Sudoku 0462
Solution 0461
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