Cryptic across
6 1 coming from Lindisfarne, after the Great North Road, goes by the book (5)
7 Benjamin’s place in chat show is to engage host from the outset (6)
9 Fringe characters on both sides chew the fat (4)
10 Runs rings around artist with a rocking trio making the music (8)
11 Ancient Mediterranean-types, one Hispanic, getting involved (11)
13 Conversion of harem, blow to apostle (11)
15 NT port’s ‘retired’ pocket accommodates a drug zone (8)
17 Sad number, in retrospect, ignore final letter of crossword definition... (4)
18 ...therefore clue’s contained in an alien code (6)
19 Grand occasion at the close of festival for Jeduthun’s progeny (5)
Cryptic down
1 Metropolitan, for example, is one that serves churches up the line? (6)
2 Retro jazz at Saracen’s Head down in Devon (8)
3 Normal carol performed in Mass one found wearing? (5,6)
4 Rings to say hello – in a weird-sounding state! (4)
5 American pre-emptive raid’s disastrous for the king (6)
8 Place in the Bible to hunt?
Misnomer, possibly (5,6)
12 Bow great Roman makes to enter into the spirit (8)
13 Usurper, party-crashing individual that lost the race (6)
14 What reason is there to, say, cause damage to the Republic? (6)
16 Snowfalls in December immersed Pakistani region (4)
Quick across
6 Amorite ally of Abraham (5)
7 ------ Waugh, author of Decline and Fall (6)
9 City of southern Austria, the capital of Styria (4)
10 No point (8)
11 Government of the Roman Catholic Church: act pompously dogmatic (11)
13 Prayers asking God’s help as part of a religious service (11)
15 Largest city in South America (3,5)
17 Man or Dogs? (4)
18 Bela ------, Dracula actor (6)
19 Reuben’s fourth son (5)
Quick down
1 Old Persian governor; small-time dictator (6)
2 Leonid Ilyich --------, USSR president (1977-1982) (8)
3 Act of praying for divine protection (11)
4 Kent resort, a Cinque Port (4)
5 Percy ------ Shelley, English Romantic poet (1782-1822) (6)
8 Seleucid king, aka Epiphanes, whose attempt to Hellenize the Jews resulted in the Maccabean revolt (9,2)
12 Solomon’s official in charge of forced labour (8)
13 Son of Daedalus who died attempting to escape from Crete using wings made by his father (6)
14 Richard Strauss opera based on John the Baptist’s nemesis (6)
16 Gambit; stratagem (4)
Entries to Crossword 0603, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk
(Answers in by July 31)
Cryptic answers to No 0602
Across: 5 Calixtus III, 7 Polo, 8 Rosemary, 9 Jehoash, 10 Kells, 13 Epona, 14 Beracah, 16 Son of Man, 18 Twig, 19 Lays hands on.
Down: 1 Express, 2 Tulsa, 3 Siam, 4 Gibraltarian, 5 Chosen People, 6 Laocoon, 11 Erastus, 12 Bernini, 15 Omaha, 17 Onyx.
Quick answers to No 0602
Across: 5 Melchizedek, 7 Spam, 8 Guernsey, 9 Giselle, 10 Hazor, 13 Goths, 14 Andante, 16 Thyatira, 18 Arod, 19 Trolley Song.
Down: 1 Chagall, 2 Uzbek, 3 Odin, 4 Skye Boat Song, 5 Mephibosheth, 6 Lambeth, 11 Arapaho, 12 Antalya, 15 Yield, 17 Amos.
Winners (0601 Cryptic)
Fr A Dearman, Prestwich, Greater Manchester; Marie Figeon, Wicklow Town, Ireland.
Winners (0601 Quick)
MJ Ray, Bristol; Mrs & Mrs I Kelly, Harrow, London.
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