1 Astound, stagger, a good guy in Arezzo (7)
5 Poke around firm in 16 (5)
8 You text this call sign? (7)
9 Drowsy, nodding partly, in a meeting at Whitby (5)
10 First person to view the joint uttered is an Iron Age Briton… (5)
11 …early British missionary, not to park any more in Cardiff (6)
13 Hit female, and mate with one, in the habitat of primates (7,6)
16 Nation’s patriarch? (6)
18 No church? Dickens of a place to find a 9 (5)
21 French pal joins quiet Christian sect (5)
22 People, after the Greek character, brought back books on pepper (7)
23 OT soldier and sailor, a woman one reported retreating (5)
24 The beast, stopping little girl playing on accordion (7)
Cryptic down
1 Felix’s wife needs a doctor, getting sick in America (8)
2 Part of the church’s character that’s dotty at heart, and simple (5)
3 Carry on more than once? (3-4)
4 Senile romp the decrepit one in Bethany welcomed (5,3,5)
5 Fleece chap, one of Paul’s hosts (5)
6 Is able to say farewell to a heavenly piece (7)
7 One on the rosary saint articulated (4)
12 It stirs a criminal set to hold American Indian place to contract (3,5)
14 Girl put individual over job (7)
15 Insipid, a cinema bomb (7)
17 5’s issue facing any son he effectively raised (5)
19 Pope’s estate overlooks ocean (5)
20 Out of chaos she’s brought
Quick across
1 Etruscan goddess adopted by Rome (7)
5 Polyphonic choral composition (5)
8 Extreme (7)
9 Edify (5)
10 Treat carefully (5)
11 Unmitigated (6)
13 Recipients of two letters from Paul (13)
16 Avoid (6)
18 Equate to (5)
21 Stockpile (5)
22 Eli’s grandson (7)
23 Lament (5)
24 Entrance (7)
Quick down
1 One of a Syrian Uniat community, in formal communion with the RC Church since 1182 (8)
2 Low point (5)
3 Child’s disease caused by a lack of Vitamin D (7)
4 Autumn triduum (13)
5 Instrument for measuring quantity (5)
6 Oberon’s fairy queen (7)
7 Container weight (4)
12 Plant of the lily family, known by the ancient Greeks as the flower of death (8)
14 Patron saint of Madrid and hunters (7)
15 Precocious sexually-mature young woman (7)
17 Rushed (5)
19 Mountain in the plain of Jezreel where Barak gathered his army (5)
20 When figuratively beyond this “fence” one is outside the limits of convention (4)
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