Cryptic across
7 Get a ticket over knee-length tunic (6)
8 He sold a cave to Abraham in record time, making a negative return (6)
9 Murder victim’s blood found alongside an article in Madrid (4)
10 Is he in the habit of remaining silent? (8)
11 What an angel Georgian girl is to eat cheese... (7)
13 ...place in Maryland no longer has Indian cuisine (5)
15 Understand party game involving sticks (5)
17 Yen one who enrolled in many clubs had previously for a particular trade (7)
20 One even put heroin in pocket to face Joseph’s boss (8)
21 Champion of Israel is at last to see Newman film (4)
22 King of Scotland looked uncannily stuffed (6)
23 Metals polluted Dutch river (6)
Cryptic down
1 Hezekiah’s secretary is a girl graduate, the first in Nineveh to be engaged (6)
2 Start of Easter time and Lent in Rome, and others (2,2)
3 Linked closely to idiot King Edward’s taken in (7)
4 Daughter of Saul is married and plain upset (5)
5 One maybe put in prisons perhaps to extract confessions? (8)
6 Angler’s gone down to place on the south coast (6)
12 Get rid of leading Communist in a Worcestershire town (8)
14 Rare bow action in conflict (4,3)
16 Book for the journey? (6)
18 Sadly rue the cutting down of Benjamin, his half-brother (6)
19 A new seat in the Lords, for one (5)
21 Language with foundations in Skye: tender, serious, intense (4)
Quick across
7 Mother of Samuel (6)
8 Perceived, or thought about in a particular way (6)
9 Increment (4)
10 King of Israel c736-35 BC, assassinated by his captain (8)
11 Holiest period for the Islamic faith (7)
13 Soft sedimentary rock which splits easily into thin layers (5)
15 Any port in a storm (5)
17 In Hinduism, one of the highest group among the four varnas (7)
20 Angelic beings of the highest order (8)
21 Matured (4)
22 The larger wing or tail feathers of a bird (6)
23 Atmospheric pressure line on a map (6)
Quick down
1 Sister of Lazarus (6)
2 Cut with a scissors (4)
3 Father of Elisha (7)
4 Bring to mind (5)
5 One of Israel’s principal judges (8)
6 Memory (6)
12 Salutation to the Virgin Mary as used in prayers to her (3,5)
14 Language presumed spoken by Christ (7)
16 Kind of acid; vinegarish (6)
18 Permanently frozen mass (3-3)
19 Narrow opening: metallic sound, especially of coins (5)
21 Genus, traditionally part of the lily family, used in balms and as a food additive (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0471: Across: 1 Cush, 3 Espousal, 9 Sanballat, 10 Rig, 11 Egret, 13 Adomnan, 14 Ecclesiastics, 16 Swear in, 18 Roman, 20 Owe, 21 Scripture, 23 Fore-days, 24 Zeus. Down: 1 Caste, 2 Sun, 4 Salvation Army, 5 Outdo, 6 Strontium, 7 Legends, 8 Mantle, 12 Racketeer, 14 Ease off, 15 Seraph, 17 Rased, 19 Noels, 22 Ute.
Quick answers to No 0471: Across: 1 Zeno, 3 Szczecin, 9 Potpourri, 10 Née, 11 On air, 13 Trellis, 14 High Churchmen, 16 Restart, 18 Moses, 20 Lei, 21 Ahimelech, 23 Shetland, 24 Aeon. Down: 1 Zeppo, 2 Net, 4 Zarathustrian, 5 Zaide, 6 Candlemas, 7 Nielson, 8 Godric, 12 Augustine, 14 Heralds, 15 Camber, 17 Avail, 19 Sihon, 22 Exe.
Crossword winners
Winners (0470 Cryptic): Margaret Macmillan, Isle of Cumbrae; David Moyes, Darlington.
Winners (0470 Quick): Anselm Fidgeon, Wicklow Town; David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Sudoku 0472
Solution 0471
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