Cryptic across
3 Dubiously approach leader of Yemen in secret matters (9)
7 Wind up on stage? (4)
8 Scandy set noir that’s odd, integrally different? (8)
9 Meeting places in the past one hears about (6)
10 David’s commander of forced labour takes a woman in this morning (6)
12 Capital deposit in bank a ram-raid withdrew (6)
14 Paisley fringe banned initially some ways of the church (6)
15 Helen’s husband’s in Paris back among Samuel’s rabble (8)
17 Kind of message to find in the scriptures (4)
18 They got a letter recording man’s meeting with Welsh girls (9)
Cryptic down
1 One area too difficult to get to is New Zealand (8)
2 Biblical brother one put in prison (4)
3 Heretical Cathars Belgians converted when taking the south east (10)
4 About the First Lady, it’s official (5)
5 Turkish title given to wood in Pennsylvania (5)
6 Sara, Tex Rex’s alter ego, as seen in Ezra? (10)
11 Big-screen TV? Maybe has one at home, admitted Caucasian (8)
13 David’s choir master, making a comeback, gets a break with piano (5)
14 Port Paul steered away from when seeing request for aid (5)
16 Next to the Land of Nod this is Utopia (4)
Quick across
3 Great warrior son of the founder of Philippi (9)
7 First wife of Lamech (4)
8 Tributary of the Mississippi in Texas and Louisiana (3,5)
9 Biblical river feeding into the Dead Sea (6)
10 Name the Canaanites had for God (6)
12 Greek mountain range extending from the Adriatic at the Albanian border to the Gulf of Corinth (6)
14 Eleventh son of Jacob and Rachel (6)
15 Bishop of Worcester (c1009-1095) and saint (feast day 19 January) (8)
17 20th century surrealist painter (4)
18 Inhabitants of western Italy before the Romans (9)
Quick down
1 King of Aram who marched on Samaria with 32 other kings in his army (3-5)
2 Great grandson of Judah (4)
3 Kinsman and fellow prisoner of Paul (10)
4 Israel’s first High Priest (5)
5 Artful move (5)
6 Ancient Egyptian city on the site of modern Cairo, as named by the Greeks (10)
11 Glassy black igneous rock (8)
13 Title taken by the Pope between c167-174 meaning ‘Saviour’ (5)
14 God of Roman mythology, the guardian of doors and gates who presided over beginnings (5)
16 Feudal estate (4)
Entries to Crossword 0599, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@catholicherald.co.uk (Answers in by July 3)
Cryptic answers to No 0598
Across: 5 Lizard, 7 Beulah, 8 Doldrums, 9 Eros, 10 Pentecostal, 11 Orthodox Jew, 14 Serb, 15 Oceanian,17 Abbacy, 18 Yearly.
Down: 1 Dido, 2 Camden, 3 Rupert, 4 Canon Law, 6 Deuteronomy, 7 Bishop of Ely, 10 Proverbs, 12 Tobias, 13 Juneau, 16 Able.
Quick answers to No 0598
Across: 5 Eliada, 7 Israel, 8 Jeremiah, 9 Twig, 10 Mount Carmel, 11 Shibboleths, 14 Crab, 15 Lutheran, 17 Erebus, 18 Shebna.
Down: 1 Elbe, 2 Rameau, 3 Pro tem, 4 Pericles, 6 Aristobulus, 7 Ishmaelites, 10 Miserere, 12 Imbibe, 13 Thebes, 16 Arne.
Winners (0597 Cryptic) Gregory Porilo, London; Liam Ó Briain, Manchester.
Winners (0597 Quick) T J Monaghan, Johnstone; Margaret Macmillan, Isle of Cumbrae.
