1 Mostly, Matt’s church outside central London is somewhere south of the River (7)
5 See 21 Down
8 Rug’s edging is top-notch – it’s an old fiddle (5)
9 Download pad Scot rents (7)
10 Female’s state’s unknown in the grip of boy gangster (8)
11 Superhero, he scribbled, finds missing gold (4)
13 Eddy gets zilch, and right upset about it (6)
14 In broadcast, pair are able to identify bird (6)
17 Gospel story’s not one Britain took on board (4)
19 Skip the festival (8)
22 Writing music, for instance, provides two examples of this? (3,4)
23 Creature, sanctimonious one before, and after, confirmation (5)
24 Composition of primordial elements, silica, silver and yttrium (5)
25 Four appear in avenue square dance relay for the President? (7)
Cryptic down
1 Pull to left to talk slowly (5)
2 Hero’s lover’s name appears in editorial (7)
3 His raise is unfair in the main (5,3)
4 One in 5 endlessly plug the ascendant French sound (6)
5 Saint’s on track to go back and read divinity… (4)
6 …another saint and a psalmist, for example, like to go to a pub… (5)
7 …eventually, slow to get Ronnie’s half (5,2)
12 Bully Eliot into getting on sheep (8)
13 Almost rude, on the edges of taste, book of verse (7)
15 Qualifications – a must ultimately to get into the subject of speleology (7)
16 Steamy establishment amateur and a Frenchman, along with many, enter (6)
18 Wind-up toys? (5)
20 Sway, but keep control (5)
21/5A Symbolic relic, halo, girl lost about the fourth of July (4,5)
Quick across
1 Strategic oasis town in Joshua, near the Dead Sea (7)
5 Pungent, bitter (5)
8 Indian coin (5)
9 Hold your silence! (4,3)
10 Biblical supernatural phenomena (8)
11 Avoid (4)
13 Gambling den (6)
14 Regional argot (6)
17 13th or 15th of the month in the Roman calendar (4)
19 Peoples of the Caucasus at odds with Russia since the Soviet break-up in 1991 (8)
22 Son of Zeus and Danae who cut off the gorgon Medusa’s head (7)
23 Affair; matter (5)
24 Strait which separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra (5)
25 Recoil (3,4)
Quick down
1 KJV version of the name of Ahab’s son who succeeded him as king of Israel (5)
2 Loud bangs (7)
3 Companion of Paul, a missionary in Galatia (8)
4 Islands, numbering about 70, off the northern coast of Scotland (6)
5 Greek god of war and lover of Aphrodite (4)
6 Probable birthplace of Samuel; possible site of NT Arimathea (5)
7 Latin word for ‘God’ or ‘Jesus’ from the more general translation of ‘lord’ or ‘master’ (7)
12 Render holy (8)
13 Synagogue official of Corinth baptized by Paul (7)
15 Supervised, monitored (7)
16 Academic dissertation (6)
18 Philistine city whose blighting by a plague forced the return of the captured Ark of the Covenant to the Israelites (5)
20 Down at heel (5)
21 —- Lugosi, film’s first Dracula (1931), appropriately born in Transylvania (4)
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