5 Elisha’s servant George hazily picked out (6)
7 Announce we’ll cover car part (6)
9 Samurai costume feature is a wrap (3)
10 Star, one that works hard, is marrying someone divine (7)
11 Classical battle defence university’s to try first to act out (7)
12 Filmmaker Howard’s signature appearing maybe on lines he wrote? (5)
14 Stone’s friend the Queen regularly entertained (5)
16 With world organization coming to an end, see a zombie state perhaps (7)
19 Annal he created being the man who killed Goliath’s brother (7)
20 Pole is dragged back to town given to Manasseh (3)
21 Calais reproached, detaining characters who are retiring to the old country (6)
22 Dine out after I initially book (6)
Cryptic down
1 Judge disheartened Vatican scholar (6)
2 Formal chap gets one involved with a Shakespearean heroine (7)
3 Egyptian god’s tense, boiling, over number two in Thebes (5)
4 Bag up one thus, wrapping up the part in Othello (6)
6 Stair troubled condescending American, a follower of Paul (11)
8 Work of Kubrick Welsh resort to an empty nod only, wavering (5,6)
13 High Priest, one featuring in three articles on the end of days (7)
15 See a cowboy brought up among Orientals on the river (6)
17 European originally noticed odd Russian drawl in Chechnya (6)
18 Concerning, dancing after draught beer? (2,3)
Quick across
5 Apostle sometimes known as Didymus (6)
7 Rudder operator: one who works the soil (6)
9 Bull markets; buoyant periods (3)
10 Sanskrit for ‘Great Soul’, applied to prominent Indians (7)
11 Ecclesiastical assembly of monks in a monastery (7)
12 Levitical city, a resting place on the desert plateau east of the R Jordan (5)
14 Eccentric (5)
16 ——- Gibbons, 17th century composer: Florida inland resort (7)
19 Athenian woman converted by Paul (7)
20 Auberge, tavern (3)
21 Dress down (6)
22 Expose (6)
Quick down
1 Marine member of the crow family, typically black with red beak and legs (6)
2 Son of Abraham by Hagar (7)
3 Irritating: chafing (5)
4 Contention; argument (6)
6 Land of Babylon, Ur and Nineveh (11)
8 Nonconformist ideology, from its German originator (11)
13 Follower of Paul who gave up the position of ruler of the synagogue in Corinth (7)
15 Plenty of! (6)
17 Nationality of one born in Esbjerg (6)
18 City near the mouth of the Rhone, location of many synods (5)
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