Cryptic across
1 Judges rock’s edge which takes half a day (6)
5 US public transport means to pursue vehicle cutback (6)
8 Arch Zion settlement is a city cursed by Jesus (8)
9 Sketch of the latest in tennis shirts and shorts (4)
10 Green location to hitch with girl, oddly, before coming home (6)
11 Greeting elements from Uppsala amicably (6)
12 He wrote a legend for Chelsea FC (4)
14 Nose about in Normandy, seeking a path to enlightenment... (3)
15 ...and novice is embraced by shunned religious sect (4)
16 5 Dn annex empty interior before the Normans (6)
18 Need, for example, a DNA coding to do list (6)
20 Young herring first seen in lower Don... (4)
21 ...river in Russia, mostly dead, and no one turns down this offering (8)
22 Quiet at home by a river in old Babylonia (6)
23 Double trouble: here’s Esther representing one who plotted to kill King Xerxes! (6)
Cryptic down
2 Church in a Greek island find a radical something that runs in Greek gods (5)
3 Lazarus’ sister’s entertaining American Indian (7)
4 German-Allied Pacific treaty hits home to Gregory, one of three Cappadocians fathers (9)
5 Issue sister’s getting over (3)
6 Return to make experiments here’s involved one of three Cappadocian fathers (5)
7 Mate of David, a whopping fibber, stopped getting upset (7)
11 Last banal trick he tried to stop Jerusalem’s rebuilding (9)
13 Ahab’s man is nothing to wicked individual, a leader of Hittites (7)
15 One that’s canonized amongst applause in a northern city (7)
17 Antiquated head of gilt is missing (5)
19 Refuse initially David, then Jonathan (5)
21 Pole is seen in the water clearing surface frost (3)
Quick across
1 Hernando ------, 1486-1547, conquistador (6)
5 Chicory-type salad vegetable (6)
8 Uncle to Esther who had overheard a plot to kill the Jewish people (8)
9 Scots-American inventor of the telephone (4)
10 Felt hat much loved by 30s gangsters (6)
11 Brandy of the French Charente (6)
12 Fixed charges for professional services (4)
14 Tavern; lodge (3)
15 Tucked in (4)
16 Octave (6)
18 Acclaimed (6)
20/21 Prayer of Simeon, often in a musical setting (4,8)
22 Count (6)
23 Naive type: parasite (6)
Quick down
2 Kind of layer in the atmosphere (5)
3 Boring (7)
4 Book of a minor prophet (9)
5 Samuel’s teacher (3)
6 Forcibly remove trousers (5)
7 Principal Latin version of the Bible (7)
11 Feast day, 2 February (9)
13 Gourmet (7)
15 Water-related (7)
17 Diacritical mark (inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters to indicate pronunciation (5)
19 Cast out (5)
21 Greyish brown; gloomy (3)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0481: Across: 7 Daniel, 8 Albion, 9 Star, 10 Adamites, 11 Baldwin, 12 Mecca, 15 Motet, 17 Vatican, 20 Maronite, 22 Agde, 23 Ursula, 24 Naaman. Down: 1 Santiago, 2 Ailred, 3 Eliakim, 4 Tamar, 5 Oblige, 6 More, 13 Chaldean, 14 Ravenna, 16 Exodus, 18 Isaiah, 19 Dinah, 21 Aire
Quick answers to No 0481: Across: 7 Trance, 8 Aerial, 9 Oval, 10 Jeremiah, 11 Grating, 12 Slain, 15 Usher, 17 Lissome, 20 Reverend, 22 None, 23 Regime, 24 Amused. Down: 1 Proverbs, 2 Anklet, 3 Beijing, 4 Tarry, 5 Primal, 6 Data, 13 Immanuel, 14 Big deal, 16 Eyelid, 18 Sendup, 19 Rebel, 21 Eden
Crossword winners
Winners (0480 Cryptic): Rev B Walker, Glasgow; John Fellows, Cardiff
Winners (0480 Quick): Anne Cleary, Buxton; Peter Loughlin, Middlesbrough
Sudoku 0482
Solution 0481
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