Cryptic across
5 Cavort with miners gathering around a place in Galilee (9)
8 Certain trouble when I dropped Greek, for example (6)
9 Alligator gets chap by Key West (6)
10 Speed English medic opened to take on board (7)
12 More retiring in the county, it’s announced (5)
14 Musical piece, a throwback of the French during a Paris summer (5)
15 Hearing range of organs is approaching uncool (7)
17 Love of Dido: Peter cured... (6)
18 ...man in Rome with a private line to his maker? (6)
20 Ephesian dissident merited US getting involved (9)
Cryptic down
1 Lent one instance securely (4)
2 Princess is in December, Nicea-bound (7)
3 A shrine to rubbish? (5)
4 He fell from the window of a rambling country house (or no?), about to be evicted... (8)
6 ...moving Martha, that is, to a Judaean town (9)
7 First class return to Philip’s place across country (9)
11 Reckon in the matter, either way, one’s paying off mortgage (8)
13 Bad place to diversify, Baja California (7)
16 Girl queen’s imprisoned in Surrey town (5)
19 With point fleeing line it’s a heavy defeat (4)
Quick across
5 Citizen of Ur, for instance (9)
8 Site of a Roman arena still in use near Lake Garda, Italy (6)
9 Egyptian capital upon which both Jeremiah and Ezekiel pronounced judgment (6)
10 Spanish bazaar or palace of Moorish origin (7)
12 (Church) tax (5)
14 Pre-Roman occupiers of Gaul, Britain and Ireland (5)
15 Riotous merrymaking (7)
17 Roman province of southern Palestine at the time of Christ (6)
18 Personal secretary of King Joash (6)
20 Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class (9)
Quick down
1 The Buckeye state, the 17th of the Union (1803) (4)
2 Third son of Aaron (7)
3 Indian system of social segregation (5)
4 Synthetic resin with a high electrical resistance; the first ‘plastic’ (8)
6 Alternative name for Satan (9)
7 Name shared by an OT king of Israel and a minor prophet (9)
11 Maori name for New Zealand: the land of the long white cloud (8)
13 Craftsman who built the Tabernacle (7)
16 Amorite ally of Abraham (5)
19 Diehard; passionate (4)
Entries to Crossword 0580, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@catholicherald.co.uk
(Answers in by February 20)
Cryptic answers to No 0579
Across: 5 Me and My Girl, 8 Manger, 9 Asarel, 10 Chianti, 12 As one, 14 Edgar, 15 Menahem, 17 Volume, 18 Avatar, 20 Actual grace.
Down: 1 Snag, 2 Amorite, 3 Ogham, 4 Great Sea, 6 Esarhaddon, 7 Jeanne d’Arc, 11 Acapulco, 13 Gemalli, 16 Jetur, 19 Acre.
Quick answers to No 0579
Across: 5 Wesleyanism, 8 Cantor, 9 Utopia, 10 Igneous, 12 Siren, 14 Blimp, 15 Bernini, 17 Usance, 18 Levite, 20 Mountain Ash.
Down: 1 Slot, 2 Pyrrhus, 3 Angus, 4 Estonian, 6 Evangelist, 7 Gideonites, 11 Edmonton, 13 Aeolian, 16 Berne, 19 Vane.
Winners (0578 Cryptic) Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae; Dr Gregory Porilo, London SW17.
Winners (0578 Quick) TJ Monaghan, Glasgow; John Geary, Romford, London.
