Cryptic across
7 What’s the matter? It’s old Susan Little! (6)
8 One’s long walk curtailed this morning by someone who spoke to Huldah (6)
9 As rich – as poor – as a tribal leader (8)
10 In a short time a group of motorists is enveloped in sea fog (4)
11 Hymn book each sailor kept (7)
13 Bug, one carried by a doctor (5)
15 Choral symphony Beethoven wrote for ordinal? (5)
17 Greek goddess’ name escapes me, which drives me mad... (7)
20 ...there’s no end to character twists in Shakespeare’s Greek tragedy (4)
21 Place in Gilead’s a goal for leading actor’s comeback (8)
23 I, initially at that time, was enthralled by an Olympian goddess (6)
24 Bird, aquatic bird, migrating from Dee-to-Sea, say, with a couple of ducks (6)
Cryptic down
1 Show disapproval of boy’s sister (4)
2 9’s dad premier DI detained, but released (6)
3 Father of Rebekah appears from out of the blue? (7)
4 Italian sort of resort on Rhode Island the French point to (5)
5 Senior cleric’s looking into rubbish operation (6)
6 Hirsute abstainer? That’s Tarzan, stupid (8)
12 Impressions of Christ, thanks to Mark? (8)
14 One gets through a fire grid above a church (7)
16 Dubbed the French in first of Tin-Tin instalments packaged and ultimately filmed (6)
18 Body that’s incomplete in Europe without United Nations and Church (6)
19 What 14 may recall in the ashes of REM’s split? (5)
22 Knowing a secret Ulster number to call up (2,2)
Quick across
7 Rich layered cake (6)
8 Counting frame (6)
9 Clear-cut (8)
10 Have a hankering (4)
11 Levite son of Hebron; cousin to Moses (7)
13 Leavened Jewish bread, shaped like a ring (5)
15 Supporter of circus acts? (5)
17 Egyptian town where the Israelites camped on the first stage of the Exodus (7)
20 Exchange text or voice messages through a computer (4)
21 Unselfish concern for others (8)
23 Gustav ------, late Romantic composer of nine mammoth symphonies (6)
24 Something prestigious (6)
Quick down
1 US university since 1887, but a college at the New Haven site since 1716 (4)
2 Unit of weight in silks, nylon and other yarns (6)
3 Austere English Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries (7)
4 Swiss city on the Rhine (German spelling) (5)
5 Port between Rhodes and Tyre used by Paul on his journey to Jerusalem (6)
6 Saint, consecrated Bishop of Lindisfarne in 685 (8)
12 Twelfth apostle, chosen to replace Judas Iscariot (8)
14 Patron saint of Madrid – and hunters (with St Humbert) (7)
16 In the recent past (6)
18 Supporter of the disabled? (6)
19 Oceanic language from which Aotearoa (‘Land of the Long White Cloud’) comes (5)
22 Large number, amount or extent: turn sharply or skid (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0492: Across: 1 Joseph, 5 Ewer, 8 Chapter, 9 Eider, 10 Shawl, 11 Orogeny, 12 Derby, 14 Agora, 18 Soluble, 20 Denim, 21 April, 22 Roadies, 23 Shen, 24 Wraith. Down: 2 Of an age, 3 Extol, 4 Harrow, 5 Erelong, 6 Endue, 7 Pray, 8 Cyst, 13 Babylon, 15 Run riot, 16 Hebrew, 17 Amos, 18 Sway, 19 Larch, 20 Diana.
Quick answers to No 0492: Across: 1 Balboa, 5 Hemp, 8 Abelard, 9 Abner, 10 Hinge, 11 Ephraim, 12 Psalm, 14 Knave, 18 Escapee, 20 Lisle, 21 Slain, 22 Success, 23 Nemo, 24 Sadism. Down: 2 Avernus, 3 Brace, 4 Addled, 5 Heathen, 6 Manna, 7 Dram, 8 Ache, 13 Lepanto, 15 Vespers, 16 Versus, 17 Lees, 18 East, 19 Craze, 20 Lucid.
Crossword winners
Winners (0491 Cryptic): PR Dunne, Alloa, Clackmannanshire; Fr Nicholas Paxton, Manchester.
Winners (0491 Quick): TJ Monaghan, Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire; Anne Smith, Walsall, West Midlands.
Sudoku 0493
Solution 0492
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EC1Y 8TQ
Answers in by June 7
