Cryptic across
7 New Zealander, troublesome and ludicrously lewd, outed a Galilean (8)
8 Brown horse leaves home after cow at last moves out (4)
9 Dynasty floozy’s acceptable in pre-eminent society (6)
10 Northerner abandons frontiers to find a place in Italy (6)
11 Biblical character, Anna – ominously detained (5)
12 Brown is Brown, the old Archbishop of Canterbury (7)
15 Route preferred by Turpin? (7)
17 Operatic princess’ name follows that of a saint (5)
19 Martial arts expert breaks neck to be a perfectionist (6)
21 Island needed for parking, Persian king commandeers (6)
22 Part of the church where Jack has to remove his hat... (4)
23 ...and loose-fitting white smock that’s said to be too much (8)
Cryptic down
1 Plain hat picked out Jacob’s son (8)
2 He prophesied in the style of a comic book – hit recorded all round (6)
3 Canterbury’s at the spiritual heart of this superhero’s alter ego (4)
4 1’s brother – something of a cow over half of the day in Calais (7)
5 Peak in the Antarctic, literally, before meeting coach (6)
6 Eastern royal characters from Iran (4)
13 One millinery firm’s marginally unsuccessful in a fashionable resort (8)
14 Bread abstainer is making a sandwich, one for dipping (7)
16 Rapturous state, popping drugs into port (6)
18 Game that’s very quick with many into beer; over half of lager, almost (6)
20 Twin peaks of Egypt sometimes appear understated (4)
21 Short European name (4)
Quick across
7 Religious festival, from the Latin ‘put away meat’ (8)
8 Surefooted goat (4)
9 Johnny Depp’s Golden Globe-nominated eponymous role of 1994 (2,4)
10 First named disciple of Jesus in John (6)
11 Tailed woodland god of ancient Greece (5)
12 Ethiopian queen or queen mother (7)
15 WWII battle site (1945) (7)
17 Dark area; shadow (5)
19 Richard Burton’s Oscar-nominated eponymous role of 1964 (6)
21 Native American tribe, a sub-group of the Iroquois (6)
22 Drift mine entrance (4)
23 Queen of Castile who married Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 (8)
Quick down
1 Usually the first animal listed in a dictionary (8)
2 Saint: at least eight who share the same name (variant spelling) (6)
3 Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17) (4)
4 Second High Priest of the Hebrew Bible after Aaron, his father (7)
5 Shuhite friend of Job (6)
6 Foremost religious and secular scholar of Anglo-Saxon England (673?-735) (4)
13 Capital of the Orkneys (8)
14 Bishop of Winchester who died in 682, unwittingly a meteorologist (7)
16 Premier Khrushchev (6)
18 Gustav ------, late Romantic composer of nine mammoth symphonies (6)
20 Christian Science founder: current swirl (4)
21 Ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea (4)
Entries to Crossword 0614, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by October 16)
Cryptic answers to No 0613
Across: 5 Ishmaelites, 8 Mahanaim, 9 Keys, 10 Ephesus, 12 Assir, 14 Bight, 16 Cyclone, 19 Zion, 20 Dartmoor, 22 Phoenicians.
Down: 1 Ziba, 2 Thrace, 3 Stokes, 4 Assyrian, 6 Agabus, 7 Lamb, 11 Philippi, 13 Cymric, 15 Hinnom, 17 Lammas, 18 Odin, 21 Ouse.
Quick answers to No 0613
Across: 5 Theosophist, 8 Issachar, 9 Haul, 10 Moliere, 12 Dixie, 14 Gezer, 16 Gorgons, 19 Ming, 20 Johnston, 22 Underground.
Down: 1 Otis, 2 Gehazi, 3 Bichri, 4 Etrurian, 6 Sahara, 7 Puri, 11 Onesimus, 13 Zophar, 15 Engedi, 17 Geshur, 18 Ajar, 21 Odds.
Winners (0612 Cryptic) Margaret MacMillan, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae; Dr Gregory Porilo, London SW17.
Winners (0612 Quick) Fr Nicholas Paxton, Manchester; Francis Beswick, Greater Manchester.
