Cryptic across
5 With sea being stormy, king conned fellow king in Assyria (10)
7 Book about one Viking’s end in Cornwall:... (6)
8 ...accepts book is to be returned to a place in the wilderness (6)
9 Getting Ebay to deliver some bits, Asa fortified this place (4)
11 With rough perimeters, street’s picked out from first showing (8)
13 Escape in Jamaica, with church among the spectacles, brings back evening in Paris (4,4)
14 Austen character appears, finally – the second in Mansfield Park after a gong (4)
15 Region traditionally for trade, initially fashionable, declines (6)
17 Dull characteristic of worms? (6)
19 Amendment to Chaucer’s scrolls (10)
Cryptic down
1 She’s worshipped by the most-elevated of kings and lauded leader of the 15 (4)
2 Male Greek character goes to support City in Macedonia (8)
3 Where Esau’s people went, turning convention upside down (4)
4 In Genesis, the unidentified two flies? (4,4)
5 Insubstantial odour in the wake of First Lady’s intimate article (10)
6 Rites outcome of disorderly mass trance (10)
10 Chap in charge of forced labour a noble Spaniard gets one to bump (8)
12 Bishop on Brussels’ directions gets small number in to coach (8)
16 Nomination for the last in the series of My Three Sons? (4)
18 Rhine’s affluent time rugby enhanced (4)
Quick across
5 Town named in honour of Herod’s father where Paul, in danger, spent a night (10)
7 Refuse to talk; fall silent (4,2)
8 Descendant of Esau, a Horite chief (6)
9 Apostle to the Gentiles (4)
11 University charity events (3,5)
13 The ‘Euxine’ of classical times (5,3)
14 Knack: present (4)
15 Keels over (6)
17 Big step (6)
19 People of a town north of Jerusalem who tricked Joshua into a peace treaty (10)
2:30 PM
Prize crossword 0572
cryptic across 5 with sea being stormy, king conned fellow king in assyria (10) 7 book about one viking’s end in cornwall:... (6) 8 ...accep...
Alun Evans

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