1 Statement of faith, writing after one like Paul (8,5)
8 Inquisitor’s team’s directions to trail army (7)
9 Subject of work to get a kind of spasm about (5)
10 Saint’s name appearing in the ‘Times’? (5)
11 Sink off port lines making a retreat (7)
12 One greeted by Paul belongs to girl mother described (6)
14 Service should rise above faults… (6)
17 …Dad’s car, in reverse, almost hits a dancing girl (7)
19 Nearly every Huron rose up to face the Indian chief (5)
21 Sponge from an idiot on
the up (5)
22 Choice of coffee made in the twinkling of an eye (7)
23 Confined state set up for the Huguenots? (5,2,6)
Cryptic down
1 A cheap axle, ill-repaired in Aachen (3-2-8)
2 Turk historically is so upset over island (5)
3 State of ‘Franglais’ in Utah is covered up (7)
4 Fake queen took seat, the first in Zion (6)
5 Provide food, not meat, from a Surrey town (5)
6 Catherine the Great? ‘Wow’, they said (7)
7 Do furs cast out transform a devil dealer? (6,7)
13 Old instrument assimilated into Italian TV dish (7)
15 One seaman’s hopeless complaint… (7)
16 …sailor’s dodgy docking of import tax (6)
18 Work shirt sort of carries painter’s reflective image (2,3) 20 Coward’s lack of warmth runs through (5)
Quick across
1 Way of talking associated with English aristocracy and early BBC presenters (7,6)
8 Radioactive metal, atomic number 92 (7)
9 Add up (5)
10 Carpet fasteners (5)
11 Citizen of a country ‘born’ in 1948 (7)
12 Edit (6)
14 Solid geometrical shape (6)
17 Refine (7)
19 Bridal path? (5)
21 Freshwater fish, member of the carp family (5)
22 Name applied to any of the four main Gospels (7)
23 Church of 600 million followers, split from Eastern Orthodox Church, 1054 (5,8)
Quick down
1 Forger (13)
2 OT father of twins (5)
3 Ordained ministers of the Christian Church (7)
4 Particular environment or walk of life (6)
5 Apostle entrusted with the ‘keys of the Kingdom of Heaven’ (5)
6 Far-out (7)
7 English author remembered for his verse for children (1870-1953) (7,6)
13 Asian country once
divided by war and political dogma (7)
15 Unnamed major antagonist(s) of the Israelites in
Genesis and Exodus (7)
16 Canonized Christian zealot, mother of the Emperor Constantine (6)
18 Bloodless (5)
20 Surname, if pronounced differently, of actors George and Steven (5)
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