5 Town in Acts of Amos Philip rebuilt (10)
7 Like going around at that time a classical city (6)
8 Judges situation when installing host initially in a chat show (6)
9 Christian in Egypt captured list (4)
11 Canadian city school bearing French name is making daughter rebellious (8)
13 Sees cars, shamefully not accessorised, refitted (8)
14 Longing to be smart (4)
15 What’s left when heart is gone from religious fanatics (6)
17 Only foot part of lolly banks left with (6)
19 Extracting Scot in the Emperor’s heyday at the last possible moment (4,2,4)
Cryptic down
1 Exercises regularly while in recess (4)
2 One among high-ranking politicians not welcome in cathedrals (8)
3 Japanese girl getting over a bit of a swine leaving port (4)
4 Place where Paul was not allowed in by Thai being suspicious (8)
5 Passed an old version of this book (10)
6 Huguenots found here speaking up at church over French female (2,8)
10 Paul sent him with letters to trendy American after a house in Wales or Brittany (8)
12 ’Er indoors’ sister’s out of it with gin, drunk, and regularly abusing (8)
16 Badgers refuge after making the French withdrawal complete (4)
18 Tim’s Gran is embroiled in bordello issues (4)
Quick across
5 Book attributed in the KJV to St John the Divine (10)
7 British islands (6)
8 Reddish-brown in colour (6)
9 Roman equivalent of the Greek god Ares (4)
11 Orthodox Muslim, perhaps today considered as one supporting militant fundamentalism (8)
13 Greek god of wine, fertility and drama (8)
14 Indian bread (4)
15 Make a summoning sign (6)
17 Town on the Nile, the site of the Sphinx (2,4)
19 Ancient capital of Wessex, its 11th century cathedral the subject of a 1966 hit record (10)
Quick down
1 The —-, South London cricket ground (4)
2 St ——– Gonzaga, patron of RC youth (8)
3 Arouse: commotion (4)
4 Vikings (8)
5 OT desert dwellers who refused to grow vines and drink wine (10)
6 Viceroy and son of the last king of Babylon (10)
10 Ancient religious language of the Hindus (8)
12 The ——–, defunct BBC publication: its crossword lives on in The Times (8)
16 The ‘Queen of the Riviera’ (4)
18 French holiday accommodation (4)
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