Cryptic across
1 In Jordan on every level, primarily, there’s a visionary (4)
3 Patriarch as rich as poor sibling 18 (8)
9 One of a parallel set of lines in country where gold is extracted (5)
10 Waters retreat trapping writer going back for some old Italians (7)
11 Theseus’ wife, worried, approached bad cop to make an escape (7)
12 More artful with knife, perhaps, not clubs (5)
13 She was promised to David after Frenchman exposed volte-face (5)
15 Commercial son of Noah makes a return in one of five cities, including Sodom (5)
20 Exhort chums to give you jewels (5)
22 Bishop of Seville’s support of one party is concerning (7)
24 Off tee – pure poetry, she mused? (7)
25 Anagram’s not Greek, it’s the high point of a Solomon song! (5)
26 Learning about a feature of weather in eastern France (8)
27 One that has little relation to the spirit of Egypt (4)
Cryptic down
1 Joshua informally keeps record indicating success in Jacob’s family (6)
2 Medusa’s sister, with limitless money, gets an Ivy League place (7)
4 Egyptian goddess finds hush in confessional, maybe (6)
5 Caliphate seeking identity of Swedish group? (7)
6 Hard to bug, say, an Asian capital (5)
7 Counter for prayers to lean on (6)
8 Met maybe it’s measure? (4)
14 Old country transport, sort of draughty, looking back (7)
16 Jackets a girl takes to Kansas on vacation (7)
17 Northern Russian river held up eleven from Madrid (6)
18 Apostle admits, at last, relative is one of twelve brothers (6)
19 Stops on board and secures ropes to cleats, pins, etc (6)
21 One cast onto high rock’s account is supported (5)
23 Holy man, the first from Ire
Quick across
1 NT gift-bearers; originally experts in Zoroastrian ritual (4)
3 Vosges crystal-making town and card game (8)
9 N African country whose formal name is expressed in the acronym SPLAGJ (5)
10 Region around Nazareth at the time of Christ (7)
11 Wife of Nabal, initially (7)
12 Port and resort of Dorset (5)
13 The fourth of Job’s friends (5)
15 Henry, Jane or Peter? (5)
20 Daisy-like bloom (5)
22 Lacking vigour or energy (7)
24 Relating to a major apostle or his doctrines (7)
25 In 3, indication by a player to meet the banker’s whole stake single-handedly (5)
26 Friend of Achilles, king of Ithaca (8)
27 Hamlet has five of these (4)
Quick down
1 Daughter of Haran; grandmother of Rebekah (6)
2 God’s messenger who gave the Virgin Mary the good news (7)
4 Villain of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (6)
5 Sea nymph who detained 26 for seven years (7)
6 10th century Viking, the first ‘duke’ of Normandy (5)
7 Amun’s capital (6)
8 Maori ceremonial war dance (4)
14 Filthy, rapacious part-woman monsters of Greek myth (7)
16 Spanish priest and friar who founded in 1216 what would become the order of Black Friars (7)
17 Greek love poetess, c 600 BC, who lived on Lesbos (6)
18 Early 18th century French composer responsible for the modern theory of harmony (6)
19 Solution to this clue is not! (6)
21 In fact (5)
23 70s pop band with nine British No 1 hits (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0487: Across: 1 Splat, 4 Strife, 10 Linus, 11 Amerind, 12 Proverb, 13 Asher, 14 Marketplace, 19 Alban, 21 Rajpoot, 23 Nirvana, 24 Caste, 25 Header, 26 Abyss. Down: 2 Pandora, 3 Aisne, 5 Toenail, 6 Irish, 7 Endure, 8 Aleph, 9 Sabbatarian, 15 Kandake, 16 Croesus, 17 Hannah, 18 Rt Rev, 20 Barra, 22 Jacob.
Quick answers to No 0487: Across: 1 Ebbed, 4 Gauche, 10 Shard, 11 Orinoco, 12 Pisidia, 13 Dopey, 14 Melchizedek, 19 Moral, 21 Nicanor, 23 Low Mass, 24 Tabor, 25 Sprays, 26 Odder. Down: 2 Brassie, 3 Ended, 5 Ariadne, 6 Chomp, 7 Eponym, 8 Asaph, 9 Moravianism, 15 Calvary, 16 Ennoble, 17 Umbles, 18 Truro, 20 Rower, 22 Cited.
Crossword winners
Winners (0485 Cryptic): Liam Ó Briain, Prestwich; Mrs Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury.
Winners (0485 Quick): John Geary, Romford; David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Sudoku 0488
Solution 0487
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Answers in by May 3
