Herald

[dave1948]

1d Half of Jerusalem graduate taking the subject of Saul (4)
?I?A

15d Name of guy, one being embraced at one in the morning by a famous sister (6)
M?A?A?

16a Able set of musicians ? (7)
?E???E?

20a Monk, American, has abridged part of the Mass... (8)
??N?????

[aelmpvw]

16a beatles

[dave1948]

Brilliant I never saw the anagram

[ladyalex]

16 Beatles anagram of able set

[dave1948]

Thank you Lady Alex

[aelmpvw]

1d ziba

[dave1948]

20a is now ??N?D???

[dave1948]

Thank you again aelmpvw

[ladyalex]

20a Benedict??

[aelmpvw]

agnus dei? but can't parse

[dave1948]

Thank you Benedict is the right answer

[Mamyalynne]

15 Miriam ?

Sister of Moses

Mr round I + AM

[Mamyalynne]

Mr round I + I + AM

[ladyalex]

I cannot parse Benedict either.....except that it is a shortened Benediction, part of the Mass plus Benedict was a Monk.
Not getting the American bit at all

[aelmpvw]

yes, benedict us

[Mamyalynne]

Benedict(US)

[ladyalex]

oops!

See it now.....always was more of a guesser than a worker-outer.

[dave1948]

Thank you Mamyalynne. Miriam is right

[dave1948]

Thank you all for coming up with the goods and for excellent explanations

[Mamyalynne]

Smashing.

[ladyalex]

Happy to help :-))