Cryptic across
1 Get old woman drink after all going round an OT peak (6)
4 Classes for actors with fringe experiences (6)
8 Gold lace many discarded at dance (5)
9 One of David’s warriors of note appearing in a version of Isaiah (7)
10 Neckwear Zulu granny starts to wear for blessing (7)
11 Before church arrive at Mesopotamian city of Uruk (5)
12 Two girls joined Rio in Colombia? (9)
17 Name in the Bible for aristocratic type moving east to west (5)
19 Biblical country’s like a Middle Eastern state today... (7)
21 ...ancient peoples evacuating as modern ones arrive (7)
22 Finns quietly joined in circular tours (5)
23 Strip is east of motorway in a field setting (3-3)
24 ‘Fake place’ is low, even with a dodgy rag being involved (6)
Cryptic down
1 Woman Paul knew sounds like hard worker after money (6)
2 Total rain’s erratic in a part of S America (7)
3 Flagrant breach of the law? (5)
5 Alternative to Nile, Abraham admitted, is a region north-west of Damascus (7)
6 There’s a lake of it according to some Utah oenologists (5)
7 Forge a popular name over the years (6)
9 21 of the OT are, as a man, insane (9)
13 Tarry back along with dwarf in the rear to meet the wizard (7)
14 See 18
15 Bits of ship plane hits with missile (6)
16 Medieval North African dynasty from the start hunted Arabs from Sudan into deportation (6)
18/14 Epigraph Dora composed for a biblical dynast (5,7)
20 He went with Paul excavating relics of Basil, a saint (5)
Quick across
1 Italian town said to be the site of the ‘Holy House’ brought from Nazareth by angels in 1295 (6)
4 Roman province governed from Corinth (6)
8 Large-eyed arboreal primate (5)
9 Lover of the priestess Hero in Greek myth (7)
10 Anton ------- (1860-1904), author of The Cherry Orchard (7)
11 Currency of the former Yugoslavia, among other countries (5)
12 Letter from Paul to inhabitants of a part of Asia Minor (9)
17 Small songbird with brown streaky plumage (5)
19 Stream by which Elijah lived through famine and drought (7)
21 Athenian woman converted by Paul (7)
22 Asher did not dispossess the inhabitants of this place, among others of the northern tribes (5)
23 Young men of the country; young amorists (6)
24 Film title (1964), starring Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole, bearing the popularized name of Henry II’s Archbishop of Canterbury (6)
Quick down
1 Plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers (6)
2 Sigmund -------, Hungarian-born US composer of operettas and musicals like The Desert Song (1926) (7)
3 Pentateuch in the Jewish Bible (5)
5 Woman mentioned in a greeting to Timothy from Paul in Rome (7)
6 Anglo-American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Anxiety (1947) (5)
7 Dawn goddess in Roman mythology (6)
9 Book of the 3 (9)
13 1929 Treaty which established Vatican City as a sovereign state (7)
14 Pharaoh appearing in 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles (7)
15 Dark suit? (6)
16 Island, port and resort of Thailand... (6)
18 ...and a Tanzanian island in the Zanzibar Archipelago (5)
20 Steer clear of; sidestep (5)
Entries to Crossword 0587,
The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row,
London EC1Y 8TQ or email
editorial@catholicherald.co.uk
(Answers in by April 10)
Cryptic answers to No 0586
Across: 6 Tamburlaine, 8 Mastodon, 9 Amis, 10 Brel, 12 Amorite, 13 Valjean, 15 Dusk, 16 Gnat, 17 Inherent, 19 Non-marrying.
Down: 1 Etna, 2 Amstel, 3 Quadragesima, 4 Diwali, 5 Bedizens, 7 Lincolnshire, 11 Revenant, 14 Litany, 15 Darwin, 18 Naga.
Quick answers to No 0586
Across: 6 Sir Lancelot, 8 Grenoble, 9 Ilex, 10 Ambo, 12 Riotous, 13 Radical, 15 Erse, 16 Isis, 17 Adonijah, 19 Apostleship.
Down: 1 Tsar, 2 Bronco, 3 Barbary Coast, 4 Ultimo, 5 Atheists, 7 Chedor-Laomer, 11 Mareshah, 14 Despot, 15 Elisha, 18 Alps.
Winners (0585 Cryptic) Mrs RT Grafftey-Smith, Malmesbury, Wiltshire; Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae.
Winners (0585 Quick) Fr Nicholas Paxton, Manchester; Mrs Paula Lewis, Mickleover, Derby.
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