7 Use a pseudonym, embarrassingly ‘The Bogeyman’, for missing king (2,2,3,4,2)
8 Quiet old place where Hagar fled (4)
9 Work Jackson did with dancing girls takes up little time (8)
10 Elements required to make a play book (4)
12 She got ahead, they say, after Rhodesia’s rebellion? (8)
14 Painter (Turner?)’s break, journalist checked (8)
16 Backward cut – it’s what Root does (4)
17 Hilly part of London necessarily requires elevated access (8)
19 Basilica part in decline needs to sacrifice the facade (4)
21 With luck book includes the gazpacho starter, and crumble, being huge in Spain (5,3,5)
Cryptic down
1 In a difficult situation, being under so large a person in church? (4)
2 State of emergency – Prussia’s invaded (6)
3 Gossip when team-leader wears fashionable headgear (8)
4 Abram’s ally’s response as the last of Hebrews withdrew, running away (4)
5 Moseyed along with Liberal Member on board – in this day and age (6)
6 Something that binds the Israelite worker after a diabolical meeting (8)
11 Woolly Balaclava’s loss leader? (8)
13 He saved English king falling by the river and on sea at Calais (8)
15 Rings around for abandoned electric garden tools (6)
16 Civil war in part of Nigeria is for territory in Namibia, frankly (6)
18 Pretentious Stephen was the first one to get his wings clipped (4)
20 Bard of Avon’s final song? (4)
Quick across
7 Mis-named epithet for Dionysius, a mystical theologian of c 500 (3,10)
8 Hit smartly or heavily: study or revise (4)
9 Muzzle-loading high-angle mortar gun used over short distances (8)
10 Skye, for one (4)
12 Son of Iddo, one of Solomon’s twelve administrators (8)
14 Item used at important times during the Catholic service, sometimes called ‘Altar’, ‘Sacring’ or ‘Sanctus’ (4,4)
16 Pursue (4)
17 Unselfish concern for others (8)
19 Denomination of the ‘two small coins’ offered to the treasury by the poverty-stricken widow in Luke (4)
21 Oldest statement of faith, from early times so ascribed (8,5)
Quick down
1 Display; performance (4)
2 Jean-Paul —— (1905-80), French existentialist philosopher and author (6)
3 Put another away (8)
4 Erupt, pour forth (4)
5 Virgin martyred in Catania,
c 251 – now the patron saint of martyrs (6)
6 Cheapest accommodation on a passenger liner (8)
11 Edible muscle of molluscs having fan-shaped shells (8)
13 Convert to Mohammedanism (8)
15 Emphasise; accentuate (6)
16 —— -Meuse, largest river basin in Belgium (6)
18 Without purpose (4)
20 Be rife (with) (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0527: Across: 5 White Friars, 7/11 Bela Lugosi, 8 Habakkuk, 9 Asriel, 12 Barony, 15 Geshur, 17 Hatfield, 18 Goan, 19 Archdiocese. Down: 1 Ziba, 2 Bethel, 3 Tribal, 4 Dark Ages, 5 Whets, 6 Spurs, 10 In office, 13 Aqaba, 14 Yields, 15 Gideon, 16 Ukase, 18 Gaea.
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