Cryptic across
5 Acts that define the proconsul of Achaia? (6)
7 Old imperial port old quack imbibed in booth (6)
9 Numbers giant among obsessive type for which there’s no alternative (4)
10 Poor cub I heal is named for Caleb in some bibles (8)
11 David’s wife’s an enormous pain (7)
13 Love saint to get ahead, and in charge, being the uncomplaining type (5)
15 Solid sort of images (5)
16 Italian place is not extremely vi- brant – conversely, nothing doing (7)
18 Henry the M*A*S*H actor’s on drugs in California making Abraham’s Land... (8)
19 ...question Gershwin put over the country today (4)
21 Scale of what the Lord finally does? (6)
22 Delayed over luggage space (2,4)
Cryptic down
1 Ruth character’s upset being foot short for Nabal’s place (4)
2 Pass over letters in Athens to go to Medea’s country (7)
3 Ahab nervously takes in Ner’s boy (5)
4 Someone Paul addressed after show, one decked in brown (8)
6 Body of water where French island gets swamped by high winds (4,7)
8 Harmonium to play here at Solomon’s Temple (5,6)
12 Dalai Lama’s objection to clergyman chap’s admission (8)
14 Bird to cast in a mould? (7)
17 Rod’s band’s experimental music... (1,3,1)
20 ...Rod obtained for Hot Rods run through? (4)
Quick across
5 Dry measure of eight gallons (6)
7 Walks heavily or noisily: vagrants (6)
9 Archaic, now rare, word for ‘layman’ (4)
10 Greek hero son of the nereid Thetis and Peleus the king of Phthia (8)
11 Sir Philip -------, author of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (7)
13 One of the Greek orders of architecture (5)
15 ----- de la Zouch, Leicestershire town (5)
16 Town in Kansas, the original end of the Chisholm Trail, named after a NT region NW of Damascus (7)
18 -------- Mountains, site of a Kenyan national park, named after a Welsh mining town (8)
19 ---- and Aeneas, opera by Henry Purcell (4)
21 Gary ------, South African multi-Major golf champion (6)
22 Alternative name for Bar Jesus (6)
Quick down
1 Low-pitched brass instrument (4)
2 Third son of Aaron (7)
3 Impatient; irritating (5)
4 A recipient of one Paul’s letters (8)
6 Soft edible blue-back fruit (11)
8 First of November, after Hallowe’en (3,5,3)
12 Obvious; clumsy (8)
14 Head of clan in Manasseh (7)
17 Native of Aotearoa (5)
20 Title given to the head of the Sacred College (4)
Entries to Crossword 0610, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by September 18)
Cryptic answers to No 0609
Across: 5 Sanhedrin, 8 Deja Vu, 9 Engage, 10 Bingley, 12 Gamma, 14 Gizmo, 15 Arc lamp, 17 Tuareg, 18 Calcol, 20 Carmelite.
Down: 1 Gaza, 2 Chaucer, 3 Edrei, 4 Dingwall, 6 Leviticus, 7 Agamemnon, 11 Gomorrah, 13 Dracula, 16 Agama, 19 Lett.
Quick answers to No 0609
Across: 5 Decapolis, 8 Cadmus, 9 Cupola, 10 Edomite, 12 Proxy, 14 Scurf, 15 Bethany, 17 Peseta, 18 Esther, 20 Palestine.
Down: 1 Herm, 2 Passata, 3 Joyce, 4 Zipporah, 6 Sadducees, 7 Alexander, 11 Mordecai, 13 Celesta, 16 Babel, 19 Tine.
Winners (0608 Cryptic) Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Anselm Figeon, Wicklow Town, Ireland.
Winners (0608 Quick) Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae; Fr Nicholas Paxton, Manchester.
