5 Realities of the Twelve Tribes? (9)
8 Gravity, in the main, falls over a long time (4)
9 Revelationary location? Take a chance with area after country’s southern border’s gone (8)
10 Exodus folk military intelligence cloak in a retro twill (7)
12 Exercises regularly during return, ready for posting to 3 (5)
14 Meander getting back, losing heading (5)
15 Woman with spear impaled by English relative of Banquo (7)
17 Move on or harm resort – destruction here may be on a biblical scale (8)
18 Shy actors? (4)
19 Sad Laban, last one of the Horonites (9)
Cryptic down
1 Be the third person to join so-called Islamic State in the spirit of Egypt (4)
2 More macho, engaging scar line being jaunty (7)
3 Overrun field: it’s clear Boney’s demise here, lacking water, is central (5)
4 Baked pie, a hot one to have in African location (8)
6 Paris is the enemy of this king of sport; a top Frenchman who meets negativity in his own country (9)
7 Seven weeks after Easter, see note inside writer’s invoice (9)
11 Depression almost hit in Irish city’s Scottish district (8)
13 Bishop of Sherborne recently left wearing military headgear (7)
16 Runner-up, to a degree, going after a West Indian’s place (5)
18 Bond perhaps one severed, being bluff (4)
Quick across
5 Group of Jews who accepted Matthew’s Gospel but rejected Paul’s letters (9)
8 Greek goddess, the personification of Earth (either spelling) (4)
9 Sabbath (5,3)
10 ——- Caves, where palaeolithic paintings were discovered in 1940 (7)
12 HE —–, creator of The Darling Buds of May and the rest of the Pop Larkin series (5)
14 Former Egyptian Canaanite town, on the road from Joppa to Jerusalem (5)
15 Sir Michael ——- (1905-98), composer of the oratorio A Child of Our Time (7)
17 Geological period, c405 million to c345 million years ago, home to the Old Red Sandstone (8)
18 Curse (4)
19 Saint who, according to legend, was martyred twice during the Diocletianic persecution (9)
Quick down
1 Multi-generational story (4)
2 Scapegoat (4,3)
3 Irish County, county town, Tralee (5)
4 Lyre-shaped musical instrument played in an open mouth (4,4)
6 King of Zobah defeated by David (9)
7 Region which comprised the kingdoms of Israel and Judah (9)
11 Iroquoian language, and its people who are now on reservations in Oklahoma and North Carolina (8)
13 Brown woody ‘coal’ (7)
16 The Road to —– Pier (1937), George Orwell’s insight into England’s political divide (5)
18 False god introduced to Ahab by Jezebel (4)
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