Cryptic across
5 Saul’s daughter finds setter near pub, reflecting (5)
6 River enterprise venture’s taken off (5)
8 One in two with uncommon incidental wit (9,4)
9 Man of Victoria’s connection with a part of Canada (7)
10 Need to take London line to terminus for trip (5)
13 Use French word, in amongst a sprinkling of English, to express feelings (5)
14 Steal five round knock-out in return against literate Russian (7)
16 God exhorter? OK, sort of (5,8)
18 Book ocean-side house, on the front (5)
19 It’s illegally traded key material? (5)
Cryptic down
1 Part of the church’s pattern’s laid out (8)
2 Chomped into eggs even, close to obese, sitting under counter (7)
3 Name operatic princess over saint (5)
4 Mine inspection excludes underground to start with (4)
5 See Eliot work halfway through the month? (11)
7 Dubious colony gets
one to enrol in the movement (11)
11 Little lives they lead, getting authority to expel student, Emile (8)
12 Alexander conquered here, making a half-breach for division to go over (7)
15 River country gets to join the empire (5)
17 Irish maybe interned in Jersey (4)
Quick across
5 Epithet for members of a congregation or parish (5)
6 Unit of heat used in the UK as the basis of gas bills (5)
8 Orthodox alliance stemming from Christians in Byzantium (7,6)
9 Modern Ethiopian language, descended from Ge’ez (7)
10 Doctrine; part of the Mass (5)
13 River of NW USA, the Columbia’s main tributary (5)
14 Reclaimed part of East Anglia (3,4)
16 Argentinian name for the Falkland Islands (5,8)
18 Musical piece where the principal subject is repeated along with other subjects (5)
19 Legendary king of classical Crete (5)
Quick down
1 Area assigned to Jordan in 1948, occupied by the Israelis since 1968 (4,4)
2 Jacob’s favourite grandson (7)
3 Pre-Carthiginian city: town in New York where the first Woolworth’s store was opened in 1879 (5)
4 Crazy driver, from the charioteering king of Israel in 2 Kings (4)
5 ----------- V, Assyrian king who took the Israelites into exile (11)
7 Philippians, as nationals (11)
11 Brutes, violent criminals (8)
12 Euphemism for Jesus Christ in John (3,4)
15 David’s eldest son (5)
17 Name shared by Tobit’s wife and a prophetess in the NT (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0555: Across: 3 Press-gang, 7 Talc, 8 Titaness, 9 Medina, 10 Rosary, 12 Iberia, 14 Karnak, 15 Potiphar, 17 Node, 18 Manhattan. Down: 1 Melchior, 2 Agen, 3 Prayer book, 4 Sutra, 5 Actor, 6 Esarhaddon, 11 Serenity, 13 Achan, 14 Karma, 16 Iamb.
Quick answers to No 0555: Across: 3 Palestine, 7 Zinc, 8 Tibetans, 9 Widely, 10 Ease in, 12 Stereo, 14 Tin hat, 15 Anglican, 17 Hera, 18 Demetrius. Down: 1 All clear, 2 Lest, 3 Philistine, 4 Satay, 5 Imbue, 6 Antipatris, 11 Sondheim, 13 Occam, 14 Tenet, 16 Lido.
Crossword winners
Winners (0554 Cryptic): Liam Ó Briain, Prestwich, Manchester; Dr Gregory Porilo, London SW17.
Winners (0554 Quick): Carmel Carlin, Bangor; Sr Brendan Murphy, Birmingham.
Sudoku 0556
Solution 0555
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