Cryptic across
3 Two boys read quietly in school a letter from Paul (11)
7 Fool little boy to come to a valley near Jerusalem (6)
8 It’s him, making a false stroke (6)
9 Figure it’s a small number to bluff (4)
11 Second to Stornoway, a most wee city (5)
13 A new seat in the Lords, for one (5)
14 Hit back at old saint (4)
16 African nation, one turning back a record number (6)
17 Board member has policeman ejected from seminary position (6)
19 Magistrate gets to write memoirs after it’s over (11)
Cryptic down
1 Drink report: it moves one to the grave (4)
2 Where a sea race settled; landing here, according to the Bible... (8)
3 ...low-brow types with an alarming pithiness and essence of the Italian (11)
4 Island off North America facing one off Scotland (4)
5 Wodehouse hero, an afterthought and legend, they say (6)
6 Hubbard’s belief is that dubious gynaecologists expel a kind of gas (11)
10 Musical event’s in place in Brazil; ring artist to go over (8)
12 Tom’s English; goddess is Greek (6)
15 Canaanite city of the Negev Caradoc captured (4)
18 Barbecue the fish? (4)
Quick across
3 Doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the Church in ecclesiastical matters (11)
7 Son of Eusebius, Doctor of the Church and Bible translator (6)
8 Marcel ------ (1871–1922), French novelist, essayist and critic (6)
9 Daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and the mother of Apollo and Artemis (4)
11 Fairy, a character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (5)
13 ----- Miles, English actress, nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in Ryan’s Daughter (1971) (5)
14 Third son of Jacob and Leah (4)
16 Judge of the Hebrews who delivered Israel from the Midianites (6)
17 ------ Ironside, one of three English kings to reign during 1016 (6)
19 Richard Hannay novel (1916) from John Buchan, sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps (11)
Quick down
1 Marcus Porcius ---- (234-149 BC), Roman statesman, orator and writer (4)
2 Relating to, or designating, an order observing the strict rule of St Francis (8)
3 Eternal; timeless (11)
4 1960s Ulster R&B band featuring Van Morrison (4)
5 Dominant animals or humans in a group (6)
6 Unsuitable, unhappy or unworkable union or marriage (11)
10 Ivan -------- (1818-1883), writer of Russian life as in Fathers and Sons (8)
12 Loire chateau of the Angevins/Plantagenets: rare example of a good Loire red wine (6)
15 Any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit (4)
18 Major city of Lorraine, ex-capital of Frankish Austrasia (4)
Entries to Crossword 0619, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by November 20)
Cryptic answers to No 0618
Across: 3 Shalmaneser, 7 Ancyra, 8 Argive, 9 Ache, 11 Caber, 13 Helot, 14 Otto, 16 Arklow, 17 Isolde, 19 Benediction.
Down: 1 Zany, 2 Ashgabat, 3 Sennacherib, 4 Moab, 5 Nuance, 6 River Jordan, 10 Holy Land, 12 Stewed, 15 Zinc, 18 Ohio.
Quick answers to No 0618
Across: 3 Theosophist, 7 Reuben, 8 Rhodes, 9 Alms, 11 Mahon, 13 Vichy, 14 St Lô, 16 Urge on, 17 Psalms, 19 Silas Marner.
Down: 1 Webb, 2 Pinochet, 3 The Malverns, 4 Sand, 5 Purim's, 6 The Informer, 10 Michelle, 12 Hypnos, 15 Apia, 18 Arno.
Winners (0617 Cryptic) Sheila Jacob, Wrexham; Anselm Figeon, Wicklow Town, Ireland.
Winners (0617 Quick) Fr Nicholas Paxton, Manchester; Sr Brendan Murphy, Birmingham.
