5 They’re in the habit of inducting one of their own into a gentleman’s club (5,6)
7/11 Global use I made of Dracula (4,6)
8 Book airline to Hawaii in front of thousands of queuing British (8)
9 Manasseh’s boy’s into the spirit of Shakespeare (6)
11 See 7
12 New York dive, last in ghetto on the west side, is rank (6)
15 Manages hurdles, being imprisoned in a Syrian town (6)
17 Some of Herts not batting cut out gin slings following the bowler’s example (8)
18 Love to ride horse backwards in a kind of Indian-style (4)
19 Westminster’s one after choir ceased unexpectedly (11)
Cryptic down
1 One faithful to Saul and close to Ahaz is being awkward at the start (4)
2 Place of worship’s a nut hard to crack (6)
3 Adopted boy’s first test about his extended family (6)
4 Vessel’s bracing of the top deck in a raging sea’s avant-garde for medieval times (4,4)
5 Stimulates members of 5 Ac’s club randomly to expel one;… (5)
6 …prompts players heading, with the rise of rugby, to get on board (5)
10 Coolness in support of snooker foul ruling (2,6)
13 Port Lawrence attacked to a degree, and put it down to a quartermaster (5)
14 Revenues are unknown after candidates at the top pulled out (6)
15 Judges man in Bible, being one into Bibles? (6)
16 Edict in Russian is like with English, in support of the country (5)
18 ‘Titanic’ mother I initially met in Georgia (4)
Quick across
5 Member of a tribe named after Jacob’s youngest son (11)
7 John —-, Scottish Protestant reformer, 1513-72 (4)
8 Common European wading bird with long brightly-coloured legs (8)
9 Region of India and Pakistan (6)
11 Lean (6)
12 Attack suddenly (6)
15 One of the five major Philistine cities (6)
17 Second-longest book in TJB, in pages, after Ecclesiasticus (8)
18 Phoenician trading centre in both OT and NT (4)
19 Deity of Sepharvites in Samaria and a son of Sennacherib of the same name (11)
Quick down
1 Black stone, a variety of quartz (4)
2 Capital of Croatia (6)
3 Saint, 6th century British monk and historian (6)
4 5 Ac Town, east of Bethel (8)
5 Xhosa people’s language group (5)
6 County town of Co Clare, Ireland (5)
10 Novel published by Charlotte Bronte in 1847 (4,4)
13 Classical musical theatre (5)
14 Variations on an Original Theme by Elgar, as popularly called (6)
15 Homeric Greek region, ruled in NT times from Corinth (variant spelling) (6)
16 —– Gail Winfrey, Queen of the US daytime TV chat shows (5)
18 KJV pronoun (4)
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