8 King of Moab is not king longer, being 2 (5)
9 Last word to a detective retiring to smart part of Rio (7)
10 Type of card needed to get inside a hospital at a Gadite town (7)
11 Savour a classical city in its own tongue (5)
12 It holds a yard – it’s rigged! (4)
13 Polish ingredients include the honey workers need to grow (7)
17 This book’s dull, also cut (7)
19 Thailand, this was once French but revolted (4)
22 Mischievous 2 file in when one comes out (5)
24 Russian assembly that’s about to claim a region in the NT (7)
25 Part of Liverpool, according to hot text, being 2 (7)
26 They say Ern’s content to make a series of runs? (5)
Cryptic down
1 Host embarrassed girl, suppressing anger in the end (3,4)
2 Totally confused – in the main, everyone (3,2,3)
3 Will friend own part of this? (5)
4 For poets it’s hard to live in Elisha’s place, perhaps (6)
5 Nihilistic artist father is close to drowning (7)
6 Number, including the Queen, he fiddled, so some say (4)
7 Dance to Fauré piece, but ignore the last note (5)
14 2, as one alpha male, is one in power in Turkey (3,5)
15 One of the first judges to come across both Nielsen pieces (7)
16 Missing out on MTV award, big voice in ministry (7)
18 Prophet was a beacon before losing his head… (6)
20 …and a Roman deity was after tipping Zoroaster’s work (5)
21 Collecting blood money, he’s sorry to give up after half a month (5)
23 Cunning overseas department shortly to gain Axis supporters (4)
Quick across
8 Nephew of David in command of Absalom’s army (5)
9 Semitic language, dialects of which are still used by some Christian sects (7)
10 Blissful state (7)
11 Innermost sanctuaries or shrines in ancient temples, whence oracles were given (5)
12 Any of a group of Celtic
languages in Ireland and
Scotland (4)
13 English poet (1340-1400) (7)
17 Geological period between the Carboniferous and Triassic, from c 280 million to 230 million years ago (7)
19 Norse god of discord and mischief (4)
22 A descendant of Shem, one of Joktan’s sons… (5)
24 …and a daughter of Herod Agrippa I (7)
25 Swiss theologian (1524-83), who propounded the ascendancy over the church by the state in
ecclesiastical matters (7)
26 Equivalent of 28.3495 grammes (5)
Quick down
1 Late crown prince of Monaco: heavier precipitation: peak in the US Cascade Range (7)
2 Hockey-like sport developed by Native Americans in Canada (8)
3 Deborah’s commander who defeated Sisera (5)
4 Citizen of a former Soviet republic, capital Astana (6)
5 Beggar of Jesus’ parable of the rich man and the beggar (7)
6 Rapid, quick (4)
7 —– end, cheap cut of meat, usually lamb… (5)
14 …this lot probably wouldn’t accept for school dinner? (8)
15 Nomad of Genesis whose name is almost interchangeable with ‘Canaan’ (7)
16 Ancient Tigris city on the opposite bank to modern Mosul (7)
18 Superior lady? (6)
20 Score of one over par for a hole in golf (5)
21 Classical city of the Peloponnese, once the greatest in Greece (5)
23 Ice crystals forming a white deposit, as in frost (4)
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