Cryptic across
1 Biblical character’s record is preserved in Joshua, abridged (6)
5 Reds, the first to open with female pitcher (4)
8 Not averse, say, to this part of the Bible? (7)
9 When princess comes back in, always duck (5)
10 Wrap tool after demanding quiet (5)
11 Mountain building as an alternative to old information New York supplied (7)
12 Style of hat that’s a fixture locally (5)
14 In Athens, the place to buy Jag or Aston parts (5)
18 With British pound invested, Seoul is struggling to be solvent (7)
20 Hard stuff, what a collier did in retrospect (5)
21 Being fourth in a series, is it part of a season? (5)
22 Orderly or aide to spacemen, the original travellers to the stars (7)
23 One neglected grey place near Mizpah, according to Samuel (4)
24 Ghostly apparition’s in the van with rusting arrows impaling the helm (6)
Cryptic down
2 Belonging to that era, an oaf gets confused, for example, being backward (2,2,3)
3 Magnify burden – almost going under, formerly (5)
4 One works on the soil to go to public school (6)
5 By and by virtually depend upon, for instance, banking (7)
6 Nice in anticipation of expected gift... (5)
7 ...Sue’s income being about right (4)
8 Growth in Regency-style housing (4)
13 Extravagant place for a little one, this city, with no fellow providing support (7)
15 Go barmy in Truro – or Turin? (3,4)
16 Jewish chap finds rabbi through looking up internet (6)
17 Book this morning before it gets very big (4)
18 Influence direction with method (4)
19 It has more than one branch in the Italian Catholic Hospital (5)
20 One in Daniel’s a dead ringer for Artemis (5)
Quick across
1 Town at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal named after its conquistador founder (6)
5 Cannabis sativa: rope material (4)
8 French philosopher and theologian; lover of Héloïse (1079-1142) (7)
9 Saul’s commander, killed by Joab (5)
10 Door part: fact or principle upon which something depends or turns (5)
11 Joseph’s son, brother of Manasseh (7)
12 Sacred song in praise of a deity (5)
14 Scoundrel (5)
18 Prisoner on the loose (7)
20 Fine thread (5)
21 Struck down, in the language of the KJV (5)
22 State of prosperity or fame (7)
23 Captain of Jules Verne’s Nautilus (4)
24 Love of cruelty (6)
Quick down
2 Lake in an Italian volcano, the entrance to Hell in Roman mythology (7)
3 Pair: support (5)
4 Confused, woolly-headed (6)
5 Pagan, or follower of polytheistic religions (7)
6 Food or gift as if by divine intervention (5)
7 Tot of spirit, especially Scotch (4)
8 Pain or pine? (4)
13 Last great sea battle involving oar-power, in 1571 (7)
15 Sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office (7)
16 Against (6)
17 Wine sediment; the bottom of the barrel (4)
18 Orient (4)
19 Fad; mania (5)
20 Clear; articulate (5)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0491: Across: 5 Israelite, 8 Ages, 9 Laodicea, 10 Émigrés, 12 Spate, 14 Amble, 15 Fleance, 17 Gomorrah, 18 Cast, 19 Sanballat. Down: 1 Isis, 2 Manlier, 3 Flood, 4 Ethiopia, 6 Agamemnon, 7 Pentecost, 11 Galloway, 13 Aldhelm, 16 Aruba, 18 Crag.
Quick answers to No 0491: Across: 5 Nazarenes, 8 Gaia/Gaea, 9 Lord’s Day, 10 Lascaux, 12 Bates, 14 Gezer, 15 Tippett, 17 Devonian, 18 Bane, 19 Sebastian. Down: 1 Saga, 2 Fall guy, 3 Kerry, 4 Jew’s harp, 6 Hadadezer, 7 Palestine, 11 Cherokee, 13 Lignite, 16 Wigan, 18 Baal.
Crossword winners
Winners (0490 Cryptic): C. Boeri, Chorley, Lancashire; Mrs R Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
Winners (0490 Quick): Mrs D Bishop, Leicester; Fr Nicholas Paxton, Manchester.
Sudoku 0492
Solution 0491
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