Cryptic across
5 Place in honour of Herod’s dad non-PC participants find revolting… (10)
7 …and others find limited, as expressed in Rome (2,2)
8 There’s a particular acidity in Isaac’s new High Priest (8)
9 Stock names include Liam, essentially a county type (7)
10 Fiery saint owes much to Anselmo’s inclusion of him (4)
12 About to tease one that featured in the Nativity (4)
14 British-English links Arab has to become Indian (7)
17 Pope excommunicated American following the Mass (8)
18 Material bordering on aberrant, commercial is totally rejected (4)
19 Paul’s emissary taunts four unfairly (10)
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1 Despot leader of Soviets excluded London’s banks from Baltic capital (6)
2 Poor chapel has nothing in it: it signals the end of an era (7)
3 Nice and acceptable, one’s little cases (5)
4 Pass over Oxford course for a place by the sea in France (6)
5 King in the Bible let go superior paintings: Rex’s right? (10)
6 Brothers after performing miracle set… (10)
11 …write in retirement music for part of the Planet Suite? (7)
13 Frenchman’s to the fore in Brexit – real European traditionalist on nationality (6)
15 One of Jacob’s family, for instance, flipped over mine being let in (6)
16 Scene of the Virgin’s lament that’s apt, somehow (5)
Quick across
5 See 16 Down
7 Wood dresser (4)
8 Of or about religious orders, their buildings or their people (8)
9 Warrior’s shoulder sash to support a sword (7)
10 Californian wine-growing valley (4)
12 Christian —-: New Look designer (4)
14 Armageddon site (7)
17 Cradlesong, lullaby (8)
18 Leaves of a South American shrub, the basis of a particularly habit-forming drug (4)
19 Second Sunday before Lent (10)
Quick down
1 Long monotonous written harangue (6)
2 German state, capital Munich (7)
3 Actress renowned for her reclusiveness, often going by just her surname (5)
4 Texas capital, named after the colony’s first leader: medieval English Augustine friar (6)
5 Followers of a son of Abraham defeated by Gideon (10)
6 Area of eastern Turkey where Peter sent his first letter (10)
11 Father of James and John… (7)
13 …and mother of Joseph and Benjamin (6)
15 Italian volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea (6)
16/5A Jewish military hero who recovered Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC from Hellenistic infection (5,10)
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