7 With me parrying, Ron broke the service… (7,6)
8 …games of the Greeks – his main action – to snatch the final on court (8)
9 Long for a South American Red (4)
10 Forever behind the clock, turned up around noon, at last, in the royal train (7)
12 Morning is hard in American sect (5)
14 New image for pharaoh who killed Josiah (5)
16 Run raggedly through Ring Cycle which takes the whole day? (7)
19 Mature monarch rejected formal wear for evening (4)
20 Item of 7, perhaps, found in St Mary’s Avenue, Rome? (3,5)
22 Ecclesiastic threads he picks up? (3,2,3,5)
Cryptic down
1 Habitats being abandoned is key in a city under siege (4)
2 Hope maybe joined by newsreader in the pub (6)
3 Tetrarch’s against using up energy (7)
4 Exhort tree to express a view (5)
5 He forecast in the style of a comic book – hit all round (6)
6 Ed bathes spasmodically in a restorative pool (8)
11 One holding back, maybe to get the AA man? (8)
13 Ruined town in New Hampshire popular First Lady’s visiting (7)
15 Valley Josiah destroyed, and numbers taken by the man (6)
17 In effect, join forces over marble (6)
18 Height in Montana to spot in the Mediterranean (5)
21 Jot down central Eton’s ring road number (4)
Quick across
7 Figure of speech Jesus used in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus as a contrast to Hades [KJV] (8,5)
8 David’s friend killed at Mt Galboa (8)
9 Narrow strip of wood (4)
10 Vinegar-type compound: film material (7)
12 Amorite city name named after one of Reuben’s tribe (5)
14 Welsh coal town: below (poetic) (5)
16 Superiority (7)
19 Cape, the southernmost tip of South America (4)
20 Husband of Judith (8)
22 Caroline Divine or Tractarian maybe described thus (5-8)
Quick down
1 Spanish river (4)
2 One of great learning (6)
3 Flood survivor and ancestor of a number of families (7)
4 United (2,3)
5 Long heavy wave before it breaks (6)
6 Citadel (8)
11 Floral-patterned heavy cotton fabric used in upholstery (8)
13 In Christianity the union which makes up one Godhead (7)
15 Somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles (6)
17 The —— Books: part of the OT which includes Job and the Psalms (6)
18 Priest’s square neck cloth often worn with the alb (5)
21 Hibernia, perhaps (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0506: Across: 7 Salome, 8 Oxford, 9 Prince of Peace, 10 Preacher, 13 Dune, 14 Stun, 16 Beaufort, 19 Global village, 21 Astern, 22 Adapts. Down: 1 Saar, 2 Joanna, 3 Kedesh, 4 Golfer, 5 Afield, 6 Bruckner, 11 Ruthless, 12 Eve, 15 Nobler, 16 Belong,17 Abiram, 18 Fulham, 20 Gate.
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