Cryptic across
5 Chap in desert mob checked for Jerusalem court (9)
8 Authorized Version, in Jude, it’s odd in there’s a sense that it’s been seen before (4,2)
9 Get into gear, for instance, to pick some greengages (6)
10 Fire in Batley gutted the Yorkshire town (7)
12 Ray, Mike lives somewhere between Georgia and Massachusetts (5)
14 Contraption in grotty industrial zone manufactured ooze from the outset (5)
15 Something illuminating, king being seen in a clinch (3,4)
17 African people are smuggled in a boat (6)
18 Zerah’s boy’s in demand all across the county (6)
20 Brother’s most excellent penetrating articulate article (9)
Cryptic down
1 Watch endlessly one Philistine stronghold (4)
2 Ross embarrassingly abandoned crash-course to become a poet (7)
3 English medic that’s turned up here at Og’s defeat (5)
4 Good fortification underpins row in Scottish town (8)
6 Jerk, over what’s acceptable in jeans, is brought to book (9)
7 Paris is the enemy of this king in sport; a superior Frenchman who puts French negativity down (9)
11 Wicked site, Dr Bishop’s place in India, close to Chandigarh (8)
13 Stoker character stops setter’s heart – maybe keels over (7)
16 Lizard Head Portuguese navigator missed (5)
19 Allow time for Latvian (4)
Quick across
5 League of ten NT Greek towns and cities, including Damascus, mainly inhabited by non-Jews (9)
8 In Greek myth, brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia (6)
9 Top part of a vaulted roof; cathedral dome (6)
10 Descendant of Esau whose people settled in the Negev (7)
12 Person authorized to act for another (5)
14 Flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin (5)
15 Village near Jerusalem, home of Simon the Leper (7)
17 Former Spanish currency (6)
18 OT book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became Queen of Persia (6)
20 Region which comprised the kingdoms of Israel and Judah; NT province of the Roman Empire (9)
Quick down
1 After Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, the fifth largest Channel Island in size (4)
2 Italian tomatoes puréed and sieved to remove seeds and lumps (7)
3 James -----, Irish author of Ulysses (1922) (5)
4 Daughter of Jethro and wife of Moses (8)
6 Jewish sect in the time of Jesus, denying the resurrection of the dead, the existence of angels, and the authority of the Mosaic Oral Law (9)
7 Warrior son of Philip of Macedon: name of eight popes (9)
11 Uncle to 18 (8)
13 Small keyboard instrument, producing an ethereal bell-like sound (7)
16 OT tower: scene of noise and confusion (5)
19 Prong of a fork (4)
Entries to Crossword 0609, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by September 11)
Cryptic answers to No 0608
Across: 5 Dissolution, 7 Feta, 8 Retrench, 9 Morales, 11 Jacob, 13 Swoon, 14 Marshal, 16 Arm in arm, 17 Lock, 18 Stabat Mater.
Down: 1 Isca, 2 Moorhen, 3 Butte, 4 Sideways, 5 Diet of Worms, 6 Necromancer, 10 Adoniram, 12 Hammams, 15 Hagar, 17 Lute.
Quick answers to No 0608
Across: 5 Anthothijah, 7 Argo, 8 Black art, 9 Impasto, 11 Aroer, 13 Jebus, 14 Lepanto, 16 Sephardi, 17 Amon, 18 Hebrew Bible.
Down: 1 Otto, 2 Cobbett, 3 Thoas, 4 Djakarta, 5 Adrammelech, 6 Harvest home, 10 Abu Dhabi, 12 Let It Be, 15 Arles, 17 Ambo.
Winners (0607 Cryptic) Fr A Dearman; Liam O Briain, Prestwich, Greater Manchester.
Winners (0607 Quick) Grace Gaskin, Mickleover, Derbyshire; John E Robertson, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire.
