Catholic Herald

[beanpole]

Really struggling to finish this one

4d Reported Gym and RI teacher (5)
?A?E?

16d Old Greek part where a church is the first among those abstaining (6)
A?H?I?

18d Celestial axis a Beatle rides (6)
S?A?R?

Looks like starry but why ?

19d Quietly ruffle the feathers of duck (5)
?H?R?

Looks like shirk but again why ?

All help gratefully received

[Mamyalynne]

18d Starry

[Mamyalynne]

sorry Ringo STARR plu Y as the ref to axis

[grasscarp]

It is Starry because Ringo Starr is a beatle and you have an x and a y axis. Celestial is starry.

[grasscarp]

Sh for quiet, ruffle feathers is irk and to shirk your duty is to duck out

[slaney]

19d Perhaps
Sh=quietly
irk= ruffles feathers of
Shirk=duck, as in avoid

[sedge47]

4d. James ?? - sounds like (reportedly) Jim (Gym) - is James a biblical teacher?
19d. SH = quietly, irk = ruffle the feathers, shirk = duck

[hedgebeater]

4d James. A "reported" Gym ie. sounds like Jim. James was an apostle and therefore an RI teacher

[beanpole]

Many thanks to all . You are all stars

Anybody any ideas on 16d ?/

[slaney]

Achaia - an old name for part of Greece,
Ach= a church
AA =those abstaining with an "I"(first) inserted.

[beanpole]

Well done Slaney.

You've come to my rescue It's finished now. Very many thanks