5 Peels back harpy’s facade to find an angel (6)
7 Dirty Yorkshire river a politician promoted (6)
9 Ignorance got, unfortunately, to the faithful (12)
10 Fleet of foot she hunted, finding answer in US city (8)
12 Day of the month, day that’s bordering Sunday (4)
13 It’s afloat, say, for the better? (4)
15 Those who conducted grading at the coal face are all retired (8)
17 Around Dudley area Latvian’s first immigrant to support England (5,7)
19 Can the French come back and sparkle? (6)
20 Like the matching elements in a city of 14 (6)
Cryptic down
1 Throwing up much of Hindu scripture’s dismissed as zealous (6)
2 Note chap invested in you back in the day (4)
3 Benefice comes via grace? (8)
4 Third medallist for New Zealand, wearing a hideous robe (6)
6 Flowers Titchmarsh originally planted among 5’s wheat sections (6,5)
8 Low-brow types apparent in this spiel of silly characters… (11)
11 …silly sort of union row, by the sound of it (8)
14 Somewhere in Italy’s capital, after moving from place up north (6)
16 Horrible woman has to go without promotion… (6)
18 …she loses her head going to the country (4)
Quick across
5 Group of mountains where the priests of Baal were defeated by Elijah (6)
7 ‘—— was here’: GI WWII graffiti often accompanied by a silly face peeking over a fence (6)
9 November the First? (3,6,3)
10 Daughter of Jethro (8)
12 Any of a group of Celtic languages in Ireland and Scotland (4)
13 Be contiguous with (4)
15 Adieu; wish for a safe journey (8)
17 Not in the manner or nature of Islam (8-4)
19 Domestic help (2,4)
20 Hat made of plaited palm leaves (6)
Quick down
1 Pope, 1963-1978 (4,2)
2 Dele —-, Tottenham and England footballer (4)
3 Outlined in words (8)
4 Sea animals with many tentacles (6)
6 Land of Babylon, Ur and Nineveh (11)
8 Heavy metal pioneers featuring Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (3,8)
11 Part of a church where marriage documents are signed (8)
14 Marcus Junius —— (85-42 BC), Roman statesman and co-assassin of Julius Caesar (6)
16 Historic name for certain native North Americans now more properly called Inuit (6)
18 Glimpse (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0507: Across: 7 Morning Prayer, 8 Isthmian, 9 Ache, 10 Eternal, 12 Amish, 14 Necho, 16 Diurnal, 19 Gown, 20 Ave Maria, 22 Man of the cloth. Down: 1 Homs, 2 Anchor, 3 Antipas, 4 Opine, 5 Balaam, 6 Bethesda, 11 Teetotal, 13 Nineveh, 15 Hinnom, 17 Really, 18 Malta, 21 Iota.
Winners (0506 Cryptic): M & T Taylor, Waterthorpe, South Yorkshire; Anselm Fidgeon, Wicklow Town,
Irish Republic. Winners (0506 Quick): Francis Beswick, Stretford, Greater Manchester; Julia Spink, York
Sudoku 0508
Solution 0507
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