Cryptic across
7 Cult member gets two boys to join up (8)
8 Writing’s on the wall for a captain in retreat (4)
9 Little time to get to grips with a piano type of instrument (4)
10 Is Dee inapt for experimentation in movement of water? (4,4)
11 Move away for a while from fire on the motorway (7)
12 Torture being bounded by an alien nation (5)
15 French resort gets hot during recess (5)
17 Charles horribly loses tail piloting helicopter to the castle (7)
20 Dips they like with bread, and birds with capital sage stuffing (8)
22 Landing in France is, alternatively, extremely leisurely (4)
23 Henry’s wife to the king is average (4)
24 Awful slur removed, colour scheme is restored to piece of religious art (4,4)
Cryptic down
1 Jehu’s dad turns up in an abridged OT book (6)
2 Jethro’s issue with silly Harpo wanting a kind of fly over (8)
3 Poise to appreciate in the 60s, superior to twit close to Twiggy (7)
4 High priest, a rising artisan, narked some (5)
5 Source of water used by 20 runs from promenade (4)
6 Depression army found on the summit of hills (6)
13 Halt go-go dancing here near Jerusalem (8)
14 Clergy’s cloaking the Dean’s habit (7)
16 Kind of savings one put to a holiday, initially, to book (6)
18 Nelson has, for instance, one long narrow procession (6)
19 Eyot’s rented out (5)
21 Port needed when one’s deflated perhaps? (4)
Quick across
7 Rich city of Western Asia and one of the seven churches in Revelation (8)
8 Brownish horse often having a coat sprinkled with white or grey (4)
9 Minute particle (4)
10 Caesar who ordered the census which brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem (8)
11 Ancient Asian kingdom, roughly modern-day Iran and Iraq (7)
12 Secret store (5)
15 Light wood used in model building (5)
17 Biting; sharp-tongued (7)
20 Titan son of Uranus and Ge and father of Helios, Selene and Eos (8)
22 Major European mountain range (4)
23 Low-pitched brass instrument (4)
24 Wife of Caesarean governor Felix who imprisoned Paul (8)
Quick down
1 Woman of Bethany whose brother Jesus restored to life (6)
2 Biblical people from the southern Dead Sea area (8)
3 Sister of 10 and Mark Antony’s fourth wife (7)
4 Freight (5)
5 Son of Aphrodite (4)
6 OT book named after Jeremiah’s secretary (6)
13 Sea where Paul’s ship to Rome was caught in a storm for 14 days… (8)
14 …and the Galatian town where he was met with violent opposition on his first mission (7)
16 Refuge: institution (6)
18 African antelope: 50s’ Chevrolet model (6)
19 Member of a religious group with more than a billion adherents worldwide (5)
21 Mountain where Moses instructed Joshua to build an altar (4)
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