5 Woman heads the force, uniform branch, for good? (5,4)
8 Two confused saints, one sacrificed in favour of the devil – this one (8)
9 Hate if sides disregarded word of honour (4)
10 Chap I am with, one of the three in school to bag a French place (6)
11 All is lost, seeing Tokyo theatre’s limited manifest (2,4)
13 Frilly bit maybe added to a New Testament hymn (6)
15 Refugee from Troy, a chap Peter cured (6)
16 One bough from which Moses saw the Promised Land (4)
18 Colin has corrupted Santa’s good name (8)
19 David defeated him in the end, the king, with a broken adze obtained earlier (9)
Cryptic down
1 Shadrach first called Samuel’s mother when erratically crossing the road (8)
2 Ancients maybe forced Sid and Leo to join up (6)
3 Criticize over-the-top review in general (6)
4 Duck a medic jumping over a desk (4)
6 Bartholomew perhaps made Hanna late (9)
7 1 half of procedures are about an Achaian convert (9)
12 Headbanger’s close to gig in a German city (8)
14 Ancestor of Samson’s mother’s ancestor? (6)
15 Bow man, Dan, for one, heard on the radio (6)
17 Issue of Judah brought up the one billionth (4)
Quick across
5 French epithet for Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans (2,7)
8 Persian word which in Hebrew became to mean ‘a blessed place’ (8)
9 Lew —-, Australian tennis player, twice Wimbledon Champion (1956-57) (4)
10 —— Wedgwood, king of the Potteries (and Judah!) (6)
11 Emmanuel ——, President of France (6)
13 Canaanite commander killed by Jael (6)
15 Ostentation; grand editorial feature (6)
16 Educating —-, 1983 film with Oscar nominations for Michael Caine and Julie Walters (4)
18 Popular US singer and actress of the 1950s and 60s (5,3)
19 Galilean town where Jesus performed many miracles (9)
Quick down
1 Follower of reactionary Islamic movement (8)
2 Book of the OT, in the Apocrypha of other Bibles (6)
3 Hymn setting of a Latin cantata (2,4)
4 Valley where David fought Goliath (4)
6 Concerning a 6th century Monophysitic sect – or James II and his followers (9)
7 Conflict (1263-65) between Henry III and his nobles, led by Simon de Montfort (6,3)
12 The ——– of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World (8)
14 Name of one of two disciples of John the Baptist and the first named disciple of Jesus (6)
15 Site of homage on a pilgrimage (6)
17 Pagan father of Hezekiah (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0528: Across: 7 Go by the name of, 8 Shur, 9 Thriller, 10 Acts, 12 Herodias, 14 Arrested, 16 Bats, 17 Highgate, 19 Apse, 21 James the Great. Down: 1 Cosh, 2 Cyprus, 3 Chitchat, 4 Aner, 5 Ambled, 6 Covenant, 11 Cardigan, 13 Redeemer, 15 Echoes, 16 Biafra, 18 Arty, 20 Swan.
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