Cryptic across
1 Classical hero, dubious bell-hop, Nero sacked (11)
8 Moral tale of freight train wreck this morning’s adults only (4,9)
10 State of Brazil at the outset of poor investments and union intrigues (5)
11 Rugby commercial appearing during American brother’s sort of reggae music (3-1-3)
12 Permit to get on board frenetic ketch (6)
14 Tycoon’s pet rhyme? (3,3)
16 Fish is featured before beef main (3,4)
17 French river angler’s gear? (5)
19 ’Under the sun’: let Carolinian translate after... (2,3,8)
20 ...being in rotten, lousy Dallas for 24 hours in November (3,5,3)
Cryptic down
2 A cruise returns to classical Portuguese city (5)
3 Resemble sails all aflutter for show (3,10)
4 Statement’s about an evangelist (6)
5 Quit after a quarrel about cheek some tabloids put about (4,5,4)
6 Over a month before detectives turned up, describing a group of eight (7)
7 Stare at round American listening to the Pope (8,2)
9 Petra they made eat bananas mushed up (10)
13 Hail old woman standing in for painter (7)
15 Outline seen through a copper frame (6)
18 As part of alibi Zapata names a place in Spain (5)
Quick across
1 44th President of the United States (6,5)
8 Superior to all others of similar type (3,10)
10 Central west coastal region of Asia Minor in NT times (5)
11 Widow holding property received from her deceased husband (7)
12 Major German poet, novelist and dramatist (1749-1832) (6)
14 Missionary leader: twin city of Minneapolis (2,4)
16 Tentacled cephalopod (7)
17 Glorify; eulogize (5)
19 Site of the battle in which the US 7th Cavalry were routed in 1876 (6,3,4)
20 Either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks (3,8)
Quick down
2 Israel’s first High Priest (5)
3 Charlemagne’s northern capital, the French name for Aachen (3-2-8)
4 Presses, folds and stretches (dough) (6)
5 Shorthanded (5,8)
6 Capital of Nicaragua (7)
7 Chinese vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and deep-fried (6,4)
9 Matinee idol of the 1930s (5,5)
13 Christen; make eligible (7)
15 Of service; working (6)
18 Prickly spine (5)
Entries to Crossword 0623, The Catholic Herald, Herald House, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TQ or email editorial@ch.rd0.co.uk (Answers in by December 18)
Cryptic answers to No 0622
Across: 1 Chrism, 4 Baalis, 9 Euterpe, 10 Troll, 11 Protestantism, 12 Sennacherib, 16 Judas Iscariot, 18 Rieti, 19 Affable, 20 Sussex, 21 Offend.
Down: 1 Cheops, 2 Ratio, 3 Serve one’s time, 5 Act on behalf of, 6 Leo XIII, 7 Salami, 8 Pentecostal, 13 Endless, 14 Fjords, 15 Attend, 17 Imbue.
Quick answers to No 0622
Across: 1 Chance, 4 Spells, 9 Elhanan, 10 Nicer, 11 Possibilities, 12 Unnecessary, 16 Extraordinary, 18 Aioli, 19 Nearest, 20 Rising, 21 Seldom.
Down: 1 Creeps, 2 Ashes, 3 Consideration, 5 Pontius Pilate, 6 Luckier, 7 Stress, 8 Engineering, 13 Notions, 14 Repair, 15 System, 17 Ahead.
Winners (0621 Cryptic) Ian Kelly, Harrow, Greater London; Peter Cates, Leicester.
Winners (0621 Quick) Marie Drake, Chorley, Lancashire; Sister Brendan Murphy, Birmingham, West Midlands.
