1 Address where oriental lives in Edom alternatively (4)
3 King’s in High Peak, lost without a key (8)
9 Store next to railway has curtain promotion (7)
10 Is against bringing in desktop pictures (5)
11 Pharaoh wants new report to be attached (5)
12 Sound wooden crossing in Kentish Town, perhaps… (7)
13 …a shock here in cockney north London? (6)
15 Once a force in Belfast, it’s withdrawn into countryside (6)
18 Things that are closer to our group once becoming a big noise in Crete (7)
20 Bodies of water in UK 16? (5)
23 Competition in music paper announced (5)
24 Nigel worries about each issue of stock (7)
25 Lords members maybe nervous here, being of a certain age group? (8)
26 Scots for Scotland, and the pound? Anglo leaders put on a squeeze (4)
Cryptic down
1 Tyre’s close to being turned and put on (5)
2 Son of Abraham’s tops in, it says, all Arab countries (5)
4 Bar Jesus from shortened service at northern cathedral (6)
5 Christian sect, after a contretemps with a news agency, lost (5)
6 Solve a problem to get rid of wrinkles? (4,3)
7 Orthodox Jew gets one on the
detectives after hold up (7)
8 Judge is eviscerated by Vatican scholar (6)
13 One bird took a chunk out of another (7)
14 Split up set stolen from a poorly renovated school (7)
16 Down, maybe, or how the Kerry area is described (6)
17 Better half of Wagner work that’s traded in (6)
19 Alien’s torture being in this country (5)
21 Bird is rising to circle a village (5)
22 Queen’s extraction is from, says he, Bantu (5)
Quick across
1 Song of praise (4)
3 Hard wheat semolina, staple of a N African dish (8)
9 Either end of the cylindrical spar slung from a mast of a square-rigged ship (7)
10 Hog’s back, as a geomorphological feature (5)
11 Abigail’s husband before David (5)
12 Code of law derived from the Quran and from the teachings of Mohammed (7)
13 —— -Meuse, largest river basin in Belgium (6)
15 Og’s kingdom, given to the tribe of Manasseh on his defeat (6)
18 Medieval nomad of the desert in 5, for example (7)
20 Lot’s father (5)
23 —– state: government that makes decisions for its people (who believe they can make them themselves (5)
24 English city of the East Midlands: 16th President of the USA (1861-65) (7)
25 Abandonment of religious faith (8)
26 Roman god of war (4)
Quick down
1 Classical German composer whose Masses include the ‘St Cecilia’ and ‘Nelson’ (5)
2 Daughter of Saul, initially promised to David (5)
4 Assimilate unconsciously (6)
5 Troubled Middle Eastern country featured in both Testaments (5)
6 Eccentric; nutcase (3,4)
7 English equivalent of the saint’s name Etienne or Esteban (7)
8 Norman ——, US author of ‘The Naked and the Dead’ (1948) and ‘An American Dream’ (1965) (6)
13 Part of the Book of Daniel, according to the Jerusalem Bible (7)
14 Site of Napoleon’s crushing defeat of the Austrian army in 1800 (7)
16 The Greek name for Rome’s Minerva (6)
17 Germanic peoples who invaded and settled in eastern England in the 5th and 6th centuries (6)
19 Underground cell or chapel (5)
21 Region of NE Spain, responsible for famous, mainly red, wine (5)
22 On the Roman calendar, the 5th day of the month (or 7th in March, May, July and October) (5)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0462: Across: 7 Gallio, 8 Heaven, 9 Gamp, 10 Exordium, 11 Herod the Great, 13 Three Young Men, 16 Kosovans, 18 Sang, 19 Mojito, 20 Avenge. Down: 1 Nazareth, 2 Aleppo, 3 Coventry Carol, 4 Shrove Tuesday, 5 Cawdor, 6 Peru, 12 Abednego, 14 Exotic, 15 Gospel, 17 Oxon.
Winners (0461 Cryptic): Margaret MacMillan, Isle of Cumbrae; David Moyes, Darlington. Winners (0461 Quick): Mrs V Duffy, Chester-le-Street; John Geary, Romford.
Sudoku 0463
Solution 0462
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