Cryptic across
7 Confused Hiram, out of love, put Solomon’s temple here (6)
8 Gas smell’s a trap for priest (6)
9 Florence’s feature with reference to a painter’s retrospective (4)
10 Encourage a southern girl to be a big spender (8)
11 Cut book, shorter version, placed earlier in the NT? (7)
13 Discrimination against a particular type of scumbag is monstrous for some (5)
15 Point to a Native American rolling rocks down a cliff face... (5)
16 ...on Lower California’s holiday island (7)
18 Psalm setting, before/after? – a tight one! (8)
19 Exhortation to boycott Scottish port (4)
21 Lament after removed a long way away (3,3)
22 Building a Ritz hotel in Jeroboam’s capital (6)
Cryptic down
1 Muslim needs space, being rebuffed (4)
2 Once the finest negotiated to become neutral (3,2,3,5)
3 Furry animal’s chasing cat racing dog (7)
4 Concert, Haydn’s at Oxford, sets the opening scene ahead of The Creation? (5)
5 Unfurled flags after a triumphant success (6,7)
6 Park maybe in the French mountains to the south – apparently so (8)
12 Holmes’ Moriarty’s seen for one right away – something to do with a record... (8)
14 ...that’s put on his head – a bitter condemnation (7)
17 City’s last manager’s written about in a diary? (5)
20 Sadly, first letter to girl is read aloud (4)
Quick across
7 Military or police unit used for security or reconnaissance (6)
8 Formal written statement of relinquishment (6)
9 Long narrative poem; blockbuster book or film (4)
10 King of Israel immediately following Menahem (8)
11 Corpse (7)
13 Hindu loincloth (5)
15 Scottish town, the administrative centre of Moray (5)
16 Crowded; pressed together (especially of armies) (7)
18 Place from which the Philistines took the Ark to Ashdod (8)
19 Fit as a fiddle! (4)
21 Volcanic spring that discharges hot water and steam (6)
22 St Lawrence ------, access for shipping between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic (6)
Quick down
1 Extinguish: soggy (4)
2 The creed of the Oxford Movement (13)
3 Fast commercial sailing ship used by the East India Co, for instance (7)
4 Little furry characters from Endor who first featured in The Return of the Jedi (1983) (5)
5 Anglican cleric sympathetic to much of 2, perhaps (4,9)
6 Adroitness and cleverness in reply; wit and witticism (8)
12 Improvised; winged it (2-6)
14 Bring down; push down (7)
17 One of a Turkic group of mainly Shi’i Muslims living in the Caucasus and Iran (5)
20 Rich soil of sand and clay mixed with decaying organic materials (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0495: Across: 5 Bayswater, 8 Gaza, 9 Alabaman, 10 Abigail, 12 Hiram, 14 Fleet, 15 Krishna, 17 Eastward, 18 Seth, 19 Bellyache. Down: 1 Cana, 2 Aspasia, 3 Rahab, 4 Denarius, 6 Sanballat, 7 Canaanite, 11 Great Sea, 13 Bradman, 16 Dally, 18 Soho.
Quick answers to No 0495: Across: 5 Jehosheba, 8 Rapt, 9 Turbojet, 10 Avestan, 12 Mizar, 14 Ensue, 15 Deserts, 17 Esoteric, 18 Roan, 19 Hammurabi. Down: 1 Sect, 2 Postman, 3 Shark, 4 Ebionite, 6 Calvinist, 7 Sebastian, 11 Stunt man, 13 Mercury, 16 Tramp, 18 Ruby.
Crossword winners
Winners (0494 Cryptic): Marie Drake, Chorley, Lancashire; John Fellows, Cardiff
Winners (0494 Quick): Anne V Bond, Croydon, Surrey; David & Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sudoku 0496
Solution 0495
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