Sunday Times Prize Crossword 4617 Sunday November 23Rd 2014

[mercedita]

Sorry to be so late with these. Can anyone help me parse them?
18A Yet "top" to THEM is "bottom" to US (4). I have BoTh. But how?
6D Army leaders stopping for one priest - Catholic or a sort of Protestant (9). I have EVANGELIC but can't see how. I hope someone is still out there!

[frugalfred]

18 butt - THEM are the Americans who call the buttocks the "butt".

[toalisi]

But t

[redtrev]

18a butt yet= but top of them =t butt =bottominth US

[mercedita]

Of course! Thank you very much. I was put off by all the extraneous punctuation!

[Captain2]

Courtesy of BlackadderV

Van(guard) inside e g(for one, for example) Eli (0ld priest) C (catholic)

[elliemay1]

seen as: E van g eli c
van=army leaders eli=priest c=catholic eg=one

[mercedita]

Gosh, that was complicated! Thank you very much. I doubt if I could have got that before next Sunday. Thank you. :-)