Cryptic across
1 Announce Fourth Team’s to meet up near Chester (7)
5 Amorite king is, in retreat, honourable (5)
8 Tom Jones, classic novel Ella hid (7)
9 Eastern Christian maybe accepted in assembly (5)
10 Exercises doctors take on board to deliver broods (5)
11 Judge’s hot-line’s been tampered with (7)
12 Appertizer’s source of fruit is dropped to become primarily sweet (6) 14 With my backing number invested in Henry’s song book (6)
18 Apostle’s constant with fathers Pope’s promoted (7)
20 Bridge building between Ruth and Samuel? (5)
21 Place Paul visited in Turkey, by Georgia (5)
22 Chinese boy’s writing a French tune (7)
23 Little subsidy Llandudno has makes the place perfect (5)
24 To the French it’s crazy exiting another Louisiana affair (7)
Cryptic down
1 Twin, on total set up, made a vague figure (7)
2 Conceal plebiscite embarrassment with removal of dodgy bit (7)
3 Scilly, perhaps, ones the French wanted for base (5)
4 Record a short time dealing with a Hittite (6)
5 Australian’s quitting rugby league to become a poet? (7)
6 Place to go for something substantial about six o’clock, they say (5)
7 Council of Rome’s excommunicating the Queen upset part of South Africa (5)
13 Old master’s vision of an archangel? (7)
15 Meissen or Siemens? Either form unbeatable competition (7)
16 Rex’s good name entered: no brainer for such a spectacle (7)
17 Abraham’s Amorite ally Chloe’s amazingly identified (6)
18 Singular example of 3 high spots of coves and piazzas – real Italy (5)
19 Almost lose the lead in the new season (5)
20 One snitch retreats clasping a single crown (5)
Quick across
1 Region of Babylonia, the home of Abraham (7)
5 Father of Paris and Hector (5)
8 Saint, type genus of pigeon or a constellation (7)
9 Veins of ore (5)
10 Tool: musical instrument (5)
11 Popular name for the Greek soldier who fought against 5 Ac’s forces in Homer’s Iliad (7)
12 Another name for Babylonia in Genesis (6)
14 In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, how the Thane of Lochaber is better known (6)
18 Passing notes at the funeral? (7)
20 Garden pest like greenfly (5)
21 Biblical name for the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk (5)
22 Ballet-pantomime written by Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) (7)
23 Branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad (5)
24 Abbot of Glastonbury, and Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 (7)
Quick down
1 Polyphemus was one, killed by 11 (7)
2 Composer whose most famous work was not played outside St Peter’s until Mozart ‘lifted’ it (7)
3 Matt -----, aka Jason Bourne (5)
4 Prophet who predicted Paul’s arrest by Jews in Jerusalem (6)
5 Ancient Syrian city, said to be built by Solomon, partially destroyed by the so-called IS (7)
6 Pakistan’s chief river (5)
7 Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt (5)
13 One of David’s thirty warriors, the brother of Joab (7)
15 Name adopted by the author of Ecclesiastes (variant spelling) (7) 16 Chap; friend or mate (arch) (3,4)
17 Fashioned (6)
18 Smells badly and offensively (5)
19 Almost operatic rock band of the 1970s and 80s (5)
20 Criminal pyromania (5)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0488: Across: 1 Joel, 3 Issachar, 9 Stria, 10 Sabines, 11 Phaedra, 12 Slier, 13 Merab, 15 Admah, 20 Opals, 22 Isidore, 24 Euterpe, 25 Amana, 26 Lorraine, 27 Isis. Down: 1 Joseph, 2 Euryale, 4 Seshat, 5 Abbasid, 6 Hanoi, 7 Rosary, 8 Yard, 14 Assyria, 16 Anoraks, 17 Boreal, 18 Simeon, 19 Belays, 21 Actor, 23 Imam.
Quick answers to No 0488: Across: 1 Magi, 3 Baccarat, 9 Libya, 10 Galilee, 11 Abigail, 12 Poole, 13 Elihu, 15 Fonda, 20 Aster, 22 Anaemic, 24 Pauline, 25 Banco, 26 Odysseus, 27 Acts. Down: 1 Milcah, 2 Gabriel, 4 Angelo, 5 Calypso, 6 Rollo, 7 Thebes, 8 Haka, 14 Harpies, 16 Dominic, 17 Sappho, 18 Rameau, 19 Across, 21 Truly, 23 Abba.
Crossword winners
Winners (0487 Cryptic): M and T Taylor, Sheffield; PR Dunne, Alloa.
Winners (0487 Quick): Michael Donnelly, Bangor; John E Robertson, Moreton-in-Marsh.
Sudoku 0489
Solution 0488
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