Cryptic across
6 Kinky hermaphrodites have no deviant harm, admitted 18D’s wicked accuser (10)
8 Without hesitation, as they say, meet at Philistine’s city (4)
9 Copper locations, originally haematite mines, those in the upper Nile (8)
10 Paul got stoned here – a totally strange admission (6)
13 Article in Paris one polished off in Catholic church out east (6)
14 Letter that emphasizes a Mediterranean type (6)
15 Induce Tolkien creature to kill (6)
16 Right chap, being into perfume, for the Russian position (8)
18 Scotch going to a Mesopotamian site in early January... (4)
19 ...since such manias are rash (8,2)
Cryptic down
1 Development of maturity is indicated by modern motorway link to the biblical port (11)
2 Light’s not right for displaying Christian fellowship group (3,1)
3 Viking’s not embarrassed after the English king, one Charles the First’s uprising (4)
4 Work on lead apprentice etched into, forms a small part of the oeuvre (8)
5 Among abstainers is house’s top linguist (8)
7 Rangers’ rivals’ mad support is something symbolic (6,5)
11 Sounds like TV engineer is some composer (8)
12 Teasing fun made of dome on head (8)
17 Hummed, eschewing words in the end, in a turn for the king... (4)
18 ...and a throne for the king (4)
Quick across
6 Conferred status to a sacred office: logical arrangement of separate elements (10)
8 Paul ----, singer/composer of Diana in 1957, and writer of the English lyrics for My Way (4)
9 Father of the tax collector, Levi (8)
10 One of the cities of the Decapolis (6)
13 Build up (6)
14 Asian temple (6)
15 ------ Churchill, French war heroine (6)
16 Nova Scotia and New Bruns-wick are two of Canada’s -------- Provinces (8)
18 Ancient Cymric, then Romano-British, name for Anglesey when home to the Druids (4)
19 Ancient country of Asia Minor, one of the targets of 1 Peter (10)
Quick down
1 Traditional site of the resting place of Noah’s ark after the Flood (5,6)
2 Dame ---- Everage, alter ego of Barry Humphries (4)
3 Irish singer/song-writer, originally with the band Clannad (4)
4 Drunkard in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (8)
5 Native American of the south-western USA, and their Uto-Aztecan language (8)
7 Austin friar, for example (11)
11 Son of David who tried to seize the throne destined for Solomon (8)
12 Spring at the foot of Mt Helicon, and the Naiad associated with it (8)
17 Icelandic books of epic mythological tales and poetry (4)
18 Inner Hebridean island north-west of Ardnamurchan Point (4)
Entries to Crossword 0612, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by October 2)
Cryptic answers to No 0611
Across: 7 Alsatian, 8 Elam, 9 Orient, 10 Curate, 11 Octants, 13 Silas, 15 Osage, 17 Baptist, 20 Divine, 21 Siloam, 23 Pisa, 24 Richmond.
Down: 1 Alaric, 2 Dare, 3 Hittite, 4 Enoch, 5 Hebraist, 6 Tantra, 12 Anglican, 14 Cassock, 16 Scipio, 18 Swains, 19 Jewry, 22 Lama.
Quick answers to No 0611
Across: 7 Winnipeg, 8 Envy, 9 Hector, 10 Object, 11 On a whim, 13 Amati, 15 Hausa, 17 Iconium, 20 Gibeah, 21 Orwell, 23 Maya, 24 Odysseus.
Down: 1 Simeon, 2 Cnut, 3 Ephraim, 4 Eglon, 5 Benjamin, 6 Avocet, 12 Wesleyan, 14 Acronym, 16 Abiram, 18 Umlaut, 19 Chloe, 22 West.
Winners (0610 Cryptic) Sue Marsh, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Anselm Figeon, Wicklow Town, Ireland.
Winners (0610 Quick) John Geary, Romford, Essex; Francis Beswick, Stretford, Greater Manchester.
