Cryptic across
5 Pope in Rome, Number Thirteen connected to St Lucia – that’s high (8,3)
7 Game with horses left mess all around (4)
8 Herb’s seen with girls, one after another (8)
9 Joe unfortunately hospital detained when, after initial silence, giving the name of a Judah king (7)
10 Book in Ireland to measure in kilos? (5)
13 Celtic deity arrive, each riding a Manx horse that’s small (5)
14 Chronicles valley after a breach is blasted (7)
16 Could it be Douglas Lord? (3,2,3)
18 Today Woolworth is gone: primarily an example of very early branch expansion (4)
19 Seizes random SS characters old Hannay novel featured (4,5,2)
Cryptic down
1 State’s allowing in Puerto Rico divorcees to a point (7)
2 City was, Lutterworth admitted, in decline (5)
3 Nice, but it goes back to the country of old (4)
4 Commonwealth type’s sportingly trailing Arab... (12)
5 ...number picked for first race that maybe Jewish (6,6)
6 Priest who warned Troy of fuel being used up by midday with November’s sacrifice (7)
11 Long time gutless supplicant hit on American theologian (7)
12 St Peter’s he enriched with Italian plate, using Swiss capital to top out (7)
15 Tomahawk strike: tense week for US Strategic Air Command here (5)
17 With a little number over a pair of variables one can gain a stone (4)
Quick across
5 Priest and king of Salem to whom Abraham paid tithes (11)
7 Trade-marked luncheon meat, originating in World War II; computer junk mail (4)
8 Channel Island, capital St Peter Port (8)
9 Popular ballet-pantomime written by Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) (7)
10 Canaanite city rebuilt by Solomon, along with Megiddo and Gezer (5)
13 Germanic barbarians originating in Scandinavia (5)
14 Musical tempo – literally at walking pace – moderately slow (7)
16 Target city of one of the seven letters from John to churches in Asia (8)
18 Son of Gad (4)
19 The ------- ----, Oscar-nominated song performed by Judy Garland in Meet Me in St Louis (1944) (7,4)
Quick down
1 Marc -------, Russian-born French painter (1887-1985) (7)
2 Member of a Turkic people of central Asia (5)
3 In Norse mythology, the father of Balder (4)
4 Lament for Bonnie Prince Charlie with new, tempered, lyrics written by RL Stevenson in 1885 (4,4,4)
5 Meribaal’s alternative name in the KJV and other Bibles (12)
6 ------- Palace, where Lollard leader John Wycliff was tried in 1378 (7)
11 Uto-Aztecan American of the Great Plains (7)
12 Province of SW Turkey, and its capital, from the regional name for Asia Minor in the NT (7)
15 Submit: return (5)
17 OT book attributed to a prophet from Tekoa (4)
Entries to Crossword 0602, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by July 24)
Cryptic answers to No 0601
Across: 1 Toggles, 5 Naias, 8 Blossom, 9 Neath, 10 Titus, 11 Novices, 13 Crown of thorns, 15 Ran away, 16 Orion, 18 Necho, 20 Explain, 21 Haydn, 22 Ephesus.
Down: 1 Tobit, 2 Ghost town, 3 Lists, 4 Simon of Cyrene, 5 Nineveh, 6 Ida, 7 Schisms, 12 Cardinals, 13 Corinth, 14 Newborn, 16 Orpah, 17 Nones, 19 Cay.
Quick answers to No 0601
Across: 1 Cabinet, 5 Caleb, 8 Euterpe, 9 Topaz, 10 Missa, 11 Indy Car, 13 Friar Lau(w)rence, 15 Branded, 16 Vitus, 18 Oriel, 20 Fortuna, 21 Folio, 22 Zooidal.
Down: 1 Cheam, 2 Bethsaida, 3 Norma, 4 The Wizard of Oz, 5 Côte d’Or, 6 Lop, 7 Bizarre, 12 Construed, 13 Fobs off, 14 Rodolfo, 16 Virgo, 17 Shaul, 19 Ill.
Winners (0600 Cryptic)
Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae; Fr A Dearman, Prestwich, Greater Manchester.
Winners (0600 Quick)
Martin Jenkins, Dublin, Ireland; David and Theresa O’Neill, Newcastle upon Tyne.
