7 I hear you French make magic mumbo-jumbo (6)
8 Sports venues Christians like to stay on the perimeter of, not near? (6)
9 Dynasty is created through much inbreeding (4)
10 Oxford college for those not morally perfect? (3,5)
11 Bishop on the throne, here to reign but abysmally, without force (7)
13 US soldier gets honourable discharge near Jerusalem (5)
15 You and I abandoned Pertwee unwisely: the idiot… (5)
17 …he went on to reform music in a Germanic Benny Goodman style, with Peggy, they say! (7)
20 He’s two-timing French friend in a grand way (8)
21 Putting pen to Times to write in ‘CHARON’, to get one across here? (4)
22 A lawyer Samuel turned down over the defence of Jews (6)
23 Kind of savings one put to a holiday, initially, to book (6)
Cryptic down
1 Lot fled here with a degree of acidity to corner Job’s mate (6)
2 Viking spirit is needed to row round in the north (4)
3 Sebastian ingests killer drug (7)
4 Bird dog’s lost its lead (5)
5 Ah, De Niro is playing one of the Judean kings (8)
6 Spot a ship and mariner has no alternative; has to heave to, totally disheartened (4,2)
12 One on a mission to free Rhode Island from rampaging barbarians (8)
14 Bishop of Winchester’s inside (7)
16 Say, for what reason, there is damage to the Republic (6)
18 Not a professional song-smith (6)
19 Issue Jacob had at the outset of devaluing Isaac, Noah and Haran (5)
21 River-land, susceptible to change, held by Mombasa Arabs (4)
Quick across
7 OT book: 1973 Elton John hit (6)
8 Rachel’s servant, mother of Dan and Napthali (6)
9 Italian sparkling wine town (4)
10 Slave who ran away from Philemon (8)
11 Book of David, mainly? (7)
13 —– Allan Poe, Gothic novelist and poet (5)
15 Canaanite city rebuilt by Solomon, along with Megiddo and Gezer (5)
17 Desiderius ——-, Flemish humanist, 1466-1536 (7)
20 Vespers in the Anglican Church (8)
21 Nephew of David, and his army commander (4)
22 Bear-like (6)
23 Bone of the outer forearm (6)
Quick down
1 Pauline port of Asia Minor, called Juliopolis when part of the Roman Empire (6)
2 Pacific island nation, capital Suva (4)
3 Loaf of bread with diagonal slashes on a rounded top (7)
4 Commander of Saul’s army (5)
5 Seven daughters of the Titan, Atlas (8)
6 Gap, something missing: hole or depression in anatomy (6)
12 People of France’s third city (after Paris and Marseille) (8)
14 One of sixteen popes of the same name (7)
16 Word that modifies something other than a noun (6)
18 Grandfather of 5 (6)
19 Isle of Wight yachting centre (5)
21 Book of the NT: diminutive for Julian Lennon, immortalised in a Beatles 1968 No 1 (4)
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