7 Timothy’s mum’s combining Brussels with a place on the Med (6)
8 Astonished, using web in this day and age (6)
9 Resort to Pompey’s place at the bottom of the map to get water (8)
10 Scots defile eagle nests in the interior (4)
11 European royal takes the biscuit; American, the drink? (7)
13 Strong measure taken after flyer, reportedly, is one of 15 … (5)
15 …high flyers on radio, banned (5)
17 Vehicles accountant impounded to make capital (7)
20 Jack’s taken out one molesting addict (4)
21 Handel composed about a hundred, primarily of the OT type (8)
23 Type of anchor an airship initially needed in the Georgetown area (6)
24 There being no entry to den, ring the underworld connection (6)
Cryptic down
1 Divine sister of one French male entertained Poles in Jericho (4)
2 Playwright’s capacity to overcome hesitation, for example (6)
3 Levi’s lad ruined her song (7)
4 Brother of Rebekah, the rejected first husband of Abigail (5)
5 Fury over Georgia’s first step to independence he predicted (6)
6 Amendment to clause that’s synod business here (8)
12 Joyce’s boy wasted years on a rambling journey to America’s south (8)
14 RV, one that’s painted, is driven through Irish county (7)
16 Scot, Stewart, tripping over some old Greek… (6)
18 …being a good Scot, is, in Highland, rewarded (6)
19 Account by Chinese family man who was stoned (5)
22 He wrote about Judith’s hair being trimmed at the sides (4)
Quick across
7 Founder of one of the three Levite groups (6)
8 Heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (6)
9 Rich city of W Asia, alluded to in Colossians; one of the seven churches in Revelation (8)
10 Polanski film adaptation (1978) of a Thomas Hardy novel (4)
11 Fatuous; stupid (7)
13 German city of Saxony-
Anhalt: Manchester-based symphony orchestra (5)
15 Edible innards (5)
17 Abbot of Glastonbury, Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 (7)
20 Manipulator: addict (4)
21 Town founded by Herod Antipas in honour of the then Roman emperor (8)
23 Mountain range from which Moses was allowed to view the promised land (6)
24 Indian spicy side dishes of yogurt, mint and chopped cucumbers (6)
Quick down
1 Juno’s Greek counterpart (4)
2/22 Where Laban lived when Jacob fled to him from Esau (6-4)
3 Cape St ——-: point of western Algarve; scene of two British naval success in 1780 and 1797 (7)
4 Deborah’s commander who defeated Sisera (5)
5 Mrs —— Gregson, later Lady Worplesdon, bullying aunt of Bertie Wooster (6)
6 Daughter of Herod Agrippa I (8)
12 Of an adherent of several Muslim sects; concerning a Muslim mystic (8)
14 Book of the Pentateuch, kind of the OT’s book of lists (7)
16 Constellation in the northern sky first listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD (6)
18 Balkan country once part of the former Yugoslavia (6)
19 Impatient; irritating (5)
22 See 2
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0546: Across: 3 The Psalmist, 7 Abbess, 8 United, 9 Romans, 10 Lena, 11 Alms, 13 Stuart, 17 Plunge, 18 Amalfi, 19 Sacring bell. Down: 1 Te Deum, 2 Divine, 3 Tabernacles, 4 Susan, 5 Laud, 6 The faithful, 12 Monaco, 14 Twang, 15 Amalek, 16 Levi.
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