5 Tearful individual, 20, majority protected… (5)
6 …being short timid sort requiring a spiritual role model (5)
8 Minute in Welsh for a Protestant composer (4)
9 Levi’s dad – kind of male to make a female turn away (8)
10 Chap that’s late rising from his bed? (7)
12 Major road at the back of Samuel’s retreat is Kenyan (5)
15 Aaron’s boy, Jack, is first character to hit the port, being half cut (5)
16 Elisha’s father has headgear at last to pass in the Lakes (7)
18 Mass somewhere in West Africa is for Joseph’s brother (8)
20 Part of Rambo video he wrote in Rome (4)
22 Scots island is weary with English visiting (5)
23 Light weight boat for US mountains (5)
Cryptic down
1 Odds and ends – seconds – thrown out, about to move into 18’s place (8)
2 Bed of aspidistra tumbleweeds infested (7)
3 Underground site, starting with Crossrail, links railway to port (5)
4 Graduates, anyway, to pop royalty (4)
5 Dead bird from Dead Sea country British dug out… (3)
7 …over area, ultimately that is, Russian government-claimed Edom (7)
11 Going around with top doctor covering hospital department briefly (7)
13 Jars a hero, Pam falling (8)
14 Girl quietly goes on about a flower… (7)
17 …one found in Yorkshire: cut the head to find a brown pigment (5)
19 Scotch going to a place in Mesopotamia in early January (4)
21 Provoke with a dagger – that’s pointless (3)
Quick across
5 Dealer in stolen property (5)
6 Corkwood (5)
8 Responsibility (4)
9 Father of one of the Twelve Tribes (8)
10 British Overseas Territory, capital Hamilton (7)
12 Host of the FIFA World Cup in 1982 (5)
15 Brusque (5)
16 First city taken by the Israelites as they entered the Promised Land (7)
18 Title or form of address for members of the clergy (8)
20 Wild mountain goat (4)
22 Dead-on: demand (5)
23 Top part of something (5)
Quick down
1 Runaway slave owned by Philemon (8)
2 Armageddon: The hill of
——- (7)
3 Obloquy (5)
4 Alliance for trade or defence (4)
5 Organ of locomotion and balance in fish (3)
7 Popular name in the OT: a descendant of Aaron and a Levite son of Hebron are examples (7)
11 One who is an expert in the Bible or other religious documents (7)
13 City named after Alexander the Great’s father, whose people received a letter from Paul (8)
14 Requisite (7)
17 Brief but vigorous fight (3-2)
19 Hard Dutch cheese (4)
21 Sin; do wrong (3)
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