Cryptic across
5 Pharisee’s into fish and birds (9)
8 House inside diocese is brown all-over (6)
9 Official paper subdued those learning to act when about five (6)
10 Those uneducated – totally – make approach to Buckingham Palace! (3,4)
12 Lord, is it about time to name a disciple? (5)
14 No control on this plane – heard to go on and on (5)
15 Old Canaanite is popular with firm, they say (7)
17 Agency take on board clown to make a Bean-type plant (6)
18 Bird, east-flying from heavy traffic (6)
20 James’ rule when translating the Bible for Catholics? (9)
Cryptic down
1 Saul’s servant in 20’s not over a vacuous barista (4)
2 German wine on the borders of Lorraine becomes French wine (7)
3 Hurtle downwards into great abyssal space (5)
4 Shoot a nuisance that’s making capital (8)
6 A rich haze camouflaged John’s dad (9)
7 One to follow on St Andrew’s Day? (9)
11 Sent up, he is a formal bloke primarily, just like Judith’s chap (8)
13 Technical hitch legally leaves one out of it. Blast! (7)
16 Roman god that’s first among them – Jupiter; and Neptune, Uranus, second-most… (5)
19 …no Uranus is Greek. This troubled Hera, his daughter (4)
Quick across
5 Temporary condition of torment or suffering (9)
8 Hittite who sold Abraham his cave for Sarah’s burial (6)
9 Initial strategy in games or battles (6)
10 David ——-, former England football captain (7)
12 Small bird of the finch family (5)
14 Vesta —– (1864-1952), English music hall male impersonator (5)
15 1965 picture which gave Julie Christie a Best Actress Oscar (7)
17 Antiphon (6)
18 Divorced and deposed Persian queen of the OT (6)
20 ——— Chant, central tradition of Western plainchant (9)
Quick down
1 Industrial valley of NW Germany (4)
2 Native of Entebbe (7)
3 Region of S Island, New Zealand, arguably the nation’s leader in Pinot Noir wines and rugby (5)
4 Thomas ——–, instigator of the English Reformation (8)
6 Book of the New Testament attributed to Paul (9)
7 People from whom Moses took a wife (9)
11 African desert (8)
13 Romano-English name for Golgotha (7)
16 Final stage of insect development (5)
19 GB —- (1856-1950), Irish playwright usually going by his middle and last names (4)
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