1 Witnessing Jesus’ rise, he’s about to join Fathers Pope promoted (7)
5 Fly to central Greece on vacation (5)
8 Array of malignant characters (5)
9 Nurse Foster? (7)
10 Rank institute ‘abysmal’, you do, every other time (4,2,2,5)
11 Daze son, falling off pillion seat (6)
12 Manuals for SatNavs? (6)
15 Cynic hit him at house earlier in Saigon today (2,3,4,4)
18 Provoke a soldier thanks to a note… (7)
19 …antipathy a little bit, being stripped of Military Cross arbitrarily (5)
20 She must be related to English staying in French resort (5)
21 Squashes for child relatively diluted? (7)
Cryptic down
1 Church worker’s anthem (5)
2 Necho changed his name with king’s protection the priest’s goal (7)
3 Outline Papist plot to make Latin official in Judaea (7,6)
4 Illuminated crack allowing peacekeepers through (6)
5 Fantastic rumour men shot presidents here (5,8)
6 Sampled items from Airdrie restaurant, less sweet (5)
7 Guy’s breakthrough record – the American classic, ‘Diana’ – was worshipped here (7)
11 Disgust expressed over bad weather here in the Gulf (7)
13 Puts on a pedestal after dares to depose one (7)
14 In the NT, rich man’s right is taken away to breed certain sea birds (6)
16 Ring 15 3456 to obtain the ultimate in indulgence (5)
17 Sheba’s sycophants Solomon at the summit excluded (5)
Quick across
1 Samaritans’ sacred mountain (7)
5 The largest religious group in India (5)
8 Harbinger (5)
9 ——- L Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries (7)
10 Latin hymn translated into a popular carol by a canon of Westminster Cathedral (6,7)
11 Father of the Titans (6)
12 Greek philosopher and astronomer said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science (6)
15 Respected and better considered, perhaps (4-7-2)
18 Tim ——-, US film actor (The Shawshank Redemption) and director (Dead Man Walking) (7)
19 Ancient Greek embodiment of the East Wind (5)
20 Sea nymph; femme fatale (5)
21 Oberon’s fairy queen (7)
Quick down
1 Tropical shrub bearing small yellowish fruit (5)
2 First of the four 5Dn ancient sacred texts (3,4)
3 Follower of Zoroaster in the Avestan (13)
4 Adapt (6)
5 ‘The King of the Jews’, as elected by the Roman senate (5,3,5)
6 Area, former state, of South Africa (5)
7 Popular name for the Greek soldier who fought against Troy in Homer’s Iliad: Joyce novel (7)
11 Ascending (7)
13 Catholic council and Vatican basilica (7)
14 County home to the Jurassic Coast (6)
16 Acronym for the interbank lending rate in London (5)
17 Italian, Maltese or Portuguese word for a Saint’s feast day (5)
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