Cryptic across
1 Face crisis of mistaken identity in ritualistic killings (10)
6 Pirate on hearing bawdy song (7)
7 Root for journalist to accept honour (5)
9 Pay for a retro clock (5)
10 Wembley maybe to admit us must be crazy (7)
11 Guarantee all but one points to a Yorkshire river (6) 13 Law of the cinema with a number being Jewish... (6)
16 ...press guy must be a superhero (4,3)
18 Carthaginian appears in homespun iconology (5)
20 Period for burying two kings in Philistine city (5)
21 Criminally a ransom is needed to get this sweeper? (7)
22 Blessings of Sixties music – duet is not in tune (10)
Cryptic down
1 Place in Hampshire in the old days for rugby where uncle featured on the wings (5)
2 Guy retired after return of writer’s block (7)
3 Great demand for current and former Welsh striker (6)
4 Russian girl’s anger disheartened Nikita (5)
5 One in debt? Be worried perhaps about the outflow (7)
6 See 8
8/6 In nice melodramatic fashion, I’m in the habit of being black and white! (9,9) 12 Comb Greece’s borders for plague (7)
14 Arbitrated between acceptable politician and a socialist... (7)
15 ...walking over Michael! (2,4)
17 Impressionistic type is seen on the web after a short time (5)
19 Handles stars, perhaps (5)
Quick across
1 Missionary, proselytizer (10)
6 3-D image (7)
7 Member country of the EU (5)
9 Breton pancake (5)
10 Item of clothing (7)
11 Indulge (6)
13 Saints of Avila and Lisieux sharing the same (anglicized) name (6)
16 Connection (7)
18 Cuban dance (5)
20 Cuttlefish ink (5)
21 Magazine: football club (7)
22 Mount of Olives garden, scene of the agony of Christ (10)
Quick down
1 Secretly run off together (5)
2 World of scholarship (7)
3 Large farmhouse (6)
4 Modern surgical tool (5)
5 Language of Thailand (7)
6 League of ten NT Greek towns and cities, including Damascus, mainly inhabited by non-Jews (9)
8 Apostle named in John; probably the Bartholomew of other Gospels (9)
12 Having nine parts (7)
14 Landmass extending from Cape Roca in the west to Cape Dezhnev in the east (7) 15 Updated version of song, film, etc (6)
17 Welsh saint, disciple of St Kentigern (5)
19 Meat chopped finely, usually beef or lamb (5)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0479:
Across: 5 Philippians, 7 Gaza, 8 Adriatic, 9 Gershom, 11 Agate, 13 Obama, 14 Utrecht, 16 Canticle, 17 Alma, 18 Song of Songs.
Down: 1 Ziba, 2 Nicanor, 3 Sport, 4 Camargue, 5 Prayer beads, 6 Saint Thomas, 10 Semitone, 12 Atheism, 15 Achor, 17 Ainu
Quick answers to No 0479: Across: 5 Jehoshaphat, 7 Balt, 8 Elsinore, 9 Platoon, 11 Jesse, 13 Psalm, 14 Seasick, 16 Virulent, 17 Prod, 18 Saint Jerome.
Down: 1 Chit, 2 Askelon, 3 Farsi, 4 Chinless, 5 Juan-les-Pins, 6 Terpsichore, 10 Talmudic, 12 Genteel, 15 Deity, 17 Plot
Crossword winners
Winners (0478 Cryptic): Gregory Porilo, Tooting; Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells
Winners (0478 Quick): TJ Monaghan, Glasgow; David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Sudoku 0480
Solution 0479
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