Cryptic across
7 Sanctimonious and dead, this Roman procurator (6)
8 One that crashed into the sea is coming from Iran initially – American transport for invasion (6)
9 Horus’ mum lives alongside extreme Islamists (4)
10 Biblical folk strike against church taxes, there being no hospital (8)
11 Island in the stream of myth; one embraces Hawaiian folk-wisdom initially (7)
12 Square into corner Dyson fits (5)
15 The bridge linking Ruth and 2 Samuel? (5)
17 Scotsman views dropping off point for manoeuvres (7)
20 Looking back, we leave apostle one as apostle two appears (8)
22 Number, including the Queen, he fiddled, some say (4)
23 Muse of Chaldean city put Ulster in the grip of abstainers (6)
24 One to blame for destroying Canaan town (6)
Cryptic down
1 A snake held by girl scattered Jews (8)
2 Zoroastrian’s view is to support equality (6)
3 Rebekah’s dad, the nut who kept a small shed (7)
4 Maxims of despot having lost the high ground (5)
5 One of Noah’s grandsons, for one, holds the motorway in abhorrence (6)
6 Take time out of Montana town to see a Scottish island (4)
13 Bakery ad deployed at first light (8)
14 Pirate with what sounds like a bawdy song (7)
16 Laurel planted in a leading Asian capital (6)
18 Legendary Anglo-Saxon saint boy found up a tree (6)
19 Colleague of Paul, last from Tarsus to sail away (5)
21 Taking nothing from Greek place, you should see Indian city (4)
Quick across
7 Common OT name: mother of King Abijam, being one (6)
8 Isaac ------ (1920-92), Russian-American sci-fi author (6)
9 Rugby move involving both sides trying to move forward while keeping the ball off the ground (4)
10 Warlike biblical folk living east of Babylonia as long ago as 3000 BC (8)
11 In Exodus, the craftsman who built the Tabernacle (7)
12 Pertaining to an ancient Andean civilization (5)
15 Moabite king, the son of Zippor (5)
17 Athenian woman converted by Paul (7)
20 Biblical city, walled since the 2nd millennium BC, made important by the Aramaeans (8)
22 Name in Genesis for a descendant of Seir the Horite (4)
23 Daughter of Mohammad (6)
24 1979 Vanessa Redgrave title role (6)
Quick down
1 City in SW California to the east of Los Angeles (8)
2 ------ and Charybdis, in classical mythology, two sea monsters in the Strait of Messina (6)
3 Scams: breathes with a rasping sound (7)
4 Deborah’s commander who defeated Sisera (5)
5 Son of Abraham and Keturah (6)
6 Genesis bird: Derbyshire river (4)
13 Ottoman Albanian ruler (1740-1822), the Lion of Yannina (3,5)
14 Windlass found on quaysides (7)
16 Old name for Nova Scotia, before the ejection of the French (6)
18 The Sea of -------, alternate name for the Dead Sea and the Jordan rift valley (6)
19 ‘The troublemaker’: Biblical character so-called after found with loot from the sacking of Jericho (5)
21 First wife of Lamech (4)
Entries to Crossword 0607, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by August 28)
Cryptic answers to No 0606
Across: 1 The Creation, 8 Amateur, 9 Nahum, 11 Alto, 12 Epistler, 14 Nobles, 16 Capote, 18 Tarshish, 19 Anis, 22 Spies, 23 Ichabod, 24 Ben-Abinadab.
Down: 2 Heart, 3 Caen, 4 Europa, 5 Tunisian, 6 Othello, 7 Canaanites, 10 Merseyside, 13 Bethesda, 15 Bernice, 17 Assisi, 20 Nubia, 21 Shia.
Quick answers to No 0606
Across: 1 Phoenicians, 8 Monitor, 9 Rhoda, 11 Haul, 12 Epiphany, 14 Tackle, 16 Espies, 18 In spades, 19 Spin, 22 Eliab, 23 Agrippa, 24 Novatianism.
Down: 2 Hindu, 3 Etta, 4 Irrupt, 5 In repose, 6 Neo-Nazi, 7 Amphitrite, 10 Abyssinian, 13 Alhambra, 15 Cassino, 17 Gehazi, 20 Pepys, 21 Iran.
Winners (0605 Cryptic) Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae.
Winners (0605 Quick) TJ Monaghan, Johnstone, Renfrewshire; Margaret Moyes, Darlington, County Durham.
