5 Parking areas by canal perhaps, in west London (9)
8 Troubled piece of land, a zone in Georgia (4)
9 American, a bachelor after a large retainer (8)
10 Trouble follows a huge mate of David (7)
12 Tyre king’s welcome to something woolly… (5)
14 …lots of cars, Financial Times bound to report, flooding into north London (5)
15 Vishnu’s avatar his rank disguised (7)
17 Dawn’s direction to hospital’s bit of a point to the west (8)
18 Articulate, able as a brother, was he? (4)
19 Upset stomach kind of complaint (9)
Cryptic down
1 California and Nevada border home for Nathan (4)
2 Reg sadly pulled out of air passage to call girl involved with Pericles… (7)
3 ..and she with a king, one of Judaea (5)
4 Studies ace individual in rugby getting money in the old days (8)
6 Ball Satan desecrated, being the bane of Nehemiah (9)
7 Is able to put on a New York soiree to promote leading actor, one out of ‘The Promised Land’ (9)
11 Poor Reg’s baffled by OT, in the main (5,3)
13 Cricketer, the lowliest positioned fielder, wears support on the head (7)
16 Grown-up boy’s a heartless woman’s toy (5)
18 Some Thurso hospitality to be found in the London area (4)
Quick across
5 Daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah (9)
8 Absorbed (4)
9 Aeroplane with an engine booster (8)
10 The Zend language (7)
12 One of two stars forming a naked eye double star in the handle of the Plough (5)
14 Follow (5)
15 Abandons (7)
17 Out of this world (8)
18 Horse of a certain colour (4)
19 Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (d 1750 BC) (9)
Quick down
1 Denomination; faction (4)
2 The ——- Always Rings Twice, notorious crime novel by James M Cain (7)
3 Predator; usurer (5)
4 Early Christian who retained the Mosaic Law, eschewing the teachings of Paul (8)
6 Follower of a French theologian whose Protestantism is sometimes called the ‘Reformed tradition’ (9)
7 Martyr who, sentenced to being shot by archers, recovered only to be clubbed to death (9)
11 Stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous acts (5,3)
13 First rock from the Sun: quicksilver (7)
16 —– steamer, commercial vessel for hire; one with no regular schedule (5)
18 —- Murray, rhyming slang for ‘curry’, after the singer from the 1940s and 50s (4)
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