Cryptic across
1 Eyes beginning to go, need earliest treatment for transplant fixes (7)
5 Nymph’s impiety rebounds, ensnaring even those who abstain (5)
8 Mature flower? (7)
9 Under Milk Wood: it’s not a poetic description of another Welsh town (5)
10 Missionary in Tibet it usually covers (5)
11 Essence of purity maybe required in budding priests (7)
13 Frowns on torch being lit, being a metaphor for an affliction in the NT (5,2,6)
15 What Onesimus did with Charles, for instance, a washed out intimate (3,4)
16 He stalked stars around Brazilian resort, being forward (5)
18 Reminder to follow knight to pharaoh who killed Josiah (5)
20 Define erstwhile featureless landscape (7)
21 Masses he wrote are handy to arrange (5)
22 NT city where drug pushers, battered, get run out (7)
Cryptic down
1 Eulogy following the close of Tevet for a Jew who could see again (5)
2 Abandoned urban area Goths won’t develop (5,4)
3 Put time into little Hampshire town’s directories (5)
4 One who gets cross seeing firemen on cosy shift (5,2,6)
5 Ruined town in New Hampshire’s popular with First Lady visiting (7)
6 Cretan high spot is evident removing Phrygian king’s flanks (3)
7 Rifts occur after Sunday in the wake of Greek character’s text message (7)
12 Men of the cloth appear in these kinds of numbers (9)
13 City’s amateur after departure of Scotsman (7)
14 Name given to tailless sheep raised near Russian river, having just come into existence (7)
16 Naomi’s in-law, alternatively father and husband (5)
17 Date in Rome, but not one’s on Saturday (5)
19 Harbour sounds of coral isle (3)
Quick across
1 Committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy (7)
5 One of Moses’ twelve spies (5)
8 Muse of lyrical poetry and music (7)
9 November birthstone (5)
10 ----- Solemnis in D Major, Beethoven’s mightiest church work (5)
11 US motor-racing championship, and the vehicle that’s used (4,3)
13 Clergyman mentor to Romeo and Juliet (either spelling) (5,8)
15 Marked or labelled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights (7)
16 Christian martyr and patron of those who suffer from epilepsy (5)
18 Architectural projection: Oxford college (5)
20 Roman goddess of good luck (7)
21 Body of work; big sheet of paper (5)
22 Pertaining to or concerning an animal arising from another by budding or division (7)
Quick down
1 East -----, Surrey stomping ground of Tony Hancock (5)
2 Fishing town on the north shore of Lake Galilee, home to at least three disciples (9)
3 Bellini’s seminal opera of 1831 (5)
4 L Frank Baum’s classic tale, brought to cinema by Victor Fleming in 1939 (3,6,2,2)
5 Heart of the Burgundy wine industry (4,3)
6 Chop (off) (3)
7 Grotesque, very odd, over-the-top (7)
12 Taken to mean (9)
13 Cheats, cons (4,3)
14 Leading male character in Puccini’s La Bohème (7)
16 Zodiac sign of late summer (5)
17 Son of Simeon whose mother was Canaanite (5)
19 Sick: Rhine tributary and canal at Strasbourg (3)
Entries to Crossword 0601, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by July 17)
Cryptic answers to No 0600
Across: 5 Amphipolis, 7 Atarah, 8 Nahash, 9 Copt, 11 Immanuel, 13 Kitchens, 14 Amid, 15 Relics, 17 Calvin, 19 Puritanism.
Down: 1 Spur, 2 High time, 3 Zoan, 4 Bithynia, 5 Authorized, 6 Asceticism, 10 Tychicus, 12 Musician, 16 Seir, 18 Lois.
Quick answers to No 0600
Across: 5 Caledonian, 7 Ophism, 8 Eke out, 9 Unto, 11 Euphemia, 13 Mass Bell, 14 Roan, 15 Begums, 17 Celtic, 19 Quatermain.
Down: 1 Albi, 2 Adam Bede, 3 Anne, 4 Cape Fear, 5 Copenhagen, 6 Ruritanian, 10 Obscurum, 12 Polycarp, 16 Seth, 18 Leah.
Winners (0599 Cryptic) Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Marie Drake, Chorley, Lancashire.
Winners (0599 Quick) Anne Smith, Walsall, West Midlands; Sr Brendan Murphy, Birmingham, West Midlands.
