5 Hair we first cut to become monks (11)
7 Where David won when it was healthy to return (4)
8 Book airline to Hawaii ahead of thousands around Britain coming home (8)
9 Heavy cloak worn by girl at the back where she’s praying (6)
11 Be that as it may, these odds get nothing (4,2)
12 Audibly ‘e clips a cigar (6)
15 Where Absalom runs across bridges, hurdling (6)
17 Wait by the car in a Devon town (8)
18 Greek character is seduced by a new deity (4)
19 Badly desire coach to see this (11)
Cryptic down
1 Place where Saul appeared hot after race (4)
2 Jacob’s dreaming of getting to heaven: there’s a nut hard to crack (6)
3 Snap up Peg – contracted for her pins – she was famous for them (6)
4 Unenlightened state of a medical man ringing the King’s Head (8)
5 Celtic leaders coming from western England landed silently hereabouts (5)
6 Encourages a football team, after characters sent off, to get a point (5)
10 Tested the church’s support in a part of France (8)
13 Board’s meeting for some soul-searching? (5)
14 Sweeney, breaking though, like butting heads (2,4)
15 Judge, swallowing a dictionary, ‘regurgitated’ drink (6)
16 On-line video broadcast one’s seen in the lab (1-4)
18 Going to earth, American, north of Arabian port (4)
Quick across
5 Another name for Mathurin (11)
7 US university since 1887, but a college at the New Haven site since 1716 (4)
8 Name of various eastern bishops of the early Church (8)
9 Green parts that form the calyx of a flower (6)
11 Prophet who predicted Paul’s arrest by Jews in Jerusalem (6)
12 One who practices magic or sorcery (6)
15 Double-reed player (6)
17 Son of Jacob and Bilah (8)
18 Shakespearean character: writer of nonsense poetry (4) 19 The ‘Citadel of Zion’ (4,2,5)
Quick down
1 Type of flute: Scottish council area (4)
2 Various (archaic) (6)
3 Medicinal shrub (6)
4 Howard Hawks’ rip-roaring western of 1959, with John Wayne (3,5) 5 Hint (5)
6 Pacific coral island republic, once rich in phosphates (5)
10 Jeremiah’s birthplace (8)
13 The second patriarch (5)
14 Reptilian creature of Teutonic mythology (6)
15 Northern Spanish city and province, once home to the kings of Asturias (6)
16 ‘The —–’, nickname given the originally-named London Bridge Tower (5)
18 Molten product of an erupting volcano (4)
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