Cryptic across
1 Parallel Bible passage about corn – deacon follows the key (11)
8 Joseph’s lad is right to point to short book’s introduction (7)
9 Hebrew character’s hale physically, it’s revealed (5)
10 Head coverings hot among early Liberals (5)
11 Lover of Theseus deviant Diana imprisoned: king gets close to see (7)
12 Memorials for priest mobbed by Catholics (6)
14 Performs in French a book of the Bible (6)
17 Hail God’s reformation of a Spanish gent (7)
19 One that believes primarily in holy inspiration, not Dundee United (5)
20 Number in river baptized at first with a star (5)
21 Cross here, a town near Alloa, during Lamentation (7)
22 Wine found in odd chancel bin Pole imbibed (6,5)
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2 Used hotline to reach the first judge (7)
3 Universe’s form before the Creation obtains order within: it ends in panic (5)
4 He wrote music hit each find acceptable (6)
5 Old Greek runs away from a French settler in Canada (7)
6 Belief in Native American head of department (5)
7 Lancashire town supports assertive women in the Salopian settlement (10)
8 Stevenson’s villain hewed dryad in a frenzy… (6,4)
13 …Shakespeare’s villain is a terrorist about to leave for Cuba’s capital (7)
15 Check change with new tenner afforded initially to get in (7)
16 Ring you in Paris jail, doing bird (6)
18 Violated woman hid in a hut? (5)
19 Henry’s a learner in compliance with the shariah (5)
Quick across
1 Revival of learning and culture in Europe, starting in the late middle ages (11)
8 In Roman mythology the (entrance to the) infernal regions (7)
9 Zulu word originally for ‘warfare’ and ‘armies’; later, in English, Zulu regiments (5)
10 First king of Crete, the son of Zeus and Europa (5)
11 Landmass named after the explorer Vespucci (1454-1512) (7)
12 Precious stone consisting of a deep red vitreous silicate mineral (6)
14 Sir Bryn ——, Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (6)
17 Region based around Chester (7)
19 Cellar, vault or underground burial chamber (5)
20 Happen; come to pass (5)
21 Anthony ——- (1917-1993), author of A Clockwork Orange (7)
22 Section of the Requiem Mass, particularly that of Gabriel Fauré (2,9)
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2 ——- crosses: series of twelve (most famously Charing Cross) built by Edward I in memory of his wife, a princess of Castile (7)
3 Virgin-martyr (291–304), the patron saint of chastity (5)
4 Ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge and writing (6)
5 City in central Texas; biblically, a region north-west of Damascus (7)
6 Island, a part of Campania, in the Bay of Naples (5)
7 Ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (10)
8 Scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world (10)
13 African country on the Red Sea which achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993 (7)
15 French dramatist (1862-1921), a byword for French bedroom farce (7)
16 Historic republic of Yugoslavia, re-established as an independent state following the Balkan War of the 1990s (6)
18 Former inmate of a prison facility (2-3)
19 Breed of long-bodied, short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head (5)
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