Cryptic across
5 In Egypt they contain bits, a mixture, of Japan and most of Corsica (7,4)
7 Smallish OT book by the morning gets very big (4)
8 Cars sent to tax men of the cloth... (8)
9 ....one of these number involved a bit of a banger (6)
10 Oh so ya? Sloaney boors... (6)
11 ...Kentish Town is all about worthy principles (6)
14 One, being cautious, backs great 60’s single, verging on adulation (6)
16 Little girl and boy Jesus left here to go to Jerusalem (8)
17 Bear without, beginning and end (4)
18 Notice Earth in turmoil at the beginning (3,8)
Cryptic down
1 Second marriage is about togetherness (6)
2 Tarzan copycat? (3-3)
3 Restricted access to Tuscan tycoon (6)
4 Desert place after hitting rock and water ran out? (6)
5 Divine order of observation with many heading inside (11)
6 Repositioning by substitute perhaps our roasting moved (11)
12 Homeric Greece, a church region, but not the first in Revelation (6)
13 Unknown drummer up top is sublime (6)
14 Embryonic fingers, over early toes and lips, are featured first (6)
15 One tweets when a bit under par? (6)
Quick across
5 Fortification built before World War II to protect France’s eastern border (7,4)
7 Old discontinued form of tax (4)
8 Irish county and town: English lord (1905-2001), a campaigner against pornography who converted to Catholicism in 1940 (8)
9 Relating to a collection of mythical Old Norse poems of the 12th century (6)
10 Continent, a southern projection of the Old World landmass (6)
11 Anglicized form of the word antiphon (6)
14 Disparage, defame (6)
16 Roman statesman, an advisor to Augustus, and a patron of the arts (c70-8 BC (8)
17 Coagulated milk used to make cheese (4)
18 ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema -----------’, translated as ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ (11)
Quick down
1 Virgin martyred in Catania, c 251 – now the patron saint of martyrs (6)
2 As a whole (2,4)
3 Fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem (6)
4 Be unlike: disagree (6)
5 Philippians, as nationals (11)
6 Nobel Prize-winning Italian-American physicist, the first to direct a controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942 (6,5)
12 Second wife of King Priam of Troy and mother to Paris and Hector (either version will fit) (6)
13 Home to an F1 Grand Prix raced over an ordinary road circuit since 1929 (6)
14 Queen divorced by Ahasuerus (6)
15 Resident of a mountainous country in Asia Minor, whose ports, Patara and Myra, were used by Paul (6)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0469: Across: 6 Gilboa, 8 Goethe, 9 Ohio, 10 Sea chest, 11 Chagall, 13 Got by, 15 Cross, 17 Beatles, 19 Edomites, 21 Agag, 23 Capers, 24 Swoons. Down: 1 Sikh, 2 Oblong, 3 Agra, 4 Jethro, 5 Chasuble, 7 Anselm, 12 Herodias, 14 Census, 16 Semtex, 18 Teapot, 20 Tusk, 22 Anna.
Quick answers to No 0469: Across: 6 Vanish, 8 Herbal, 9 Stab, 10 Michigan, 11 Abashed, 13 Xebec, 15 Tract, 17 Japheth, 19 Caesarea, 21 Acre, 23 Tavern, 24 Entrap. Down: 1 Pant, 2 Nimbus, 3 Chic, 4 Ursine, 5 Parakeet, 7 Hammer, 12 Barnabas, 14 Harare, 16 Cashew, 18 Hearth, 20 Rank, 22 Ream.
Crossword winners
Winners (0468 Cryptic): Margaret MacMillan, Isle of Cumbrae; Anselm Fidgeon, Wicklow Town.
Winners (0468 Quick): Mrs M Turney, Blyth; Anne V Bond, Croydon.
Sudoku 0470
Solution 0469
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Answers in by December 21
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