1 Alcohol made cherubim flail (13)
8 Sarah’s one to put time into: a girl, Catholic and ultimately rich (9)
9 God is fair to Rome the Italian conceded (3)
10 Get shot of a number recoiling at an all-time low (5)
12 Stays the same as the rest (7)
13 Regret runner has about technique (6)
14 Tom’s bearing the name of the goddess (6)
16 Like a Middle Eastern country, one of the past (7)
17 Redact orator’s bit from play he’s in (5)
19 Rugby is led by clubs; find the best of the bunch in France? (3)
20 Stone Age oil refining involved ethnic cleansing (9)
22 Good book they bang on about? (5-8)
Cryptic down
1 Sharp stuff to down? No, honey (5)
2 Gets like a newt after eschewing port (3)
3 Shakespearean cleric’s racier funeral arrangements (5,8)
4 Dawn’s glow is heavenly (6)
5 Damn Imam’s home unfairly in the name of religion (13)
6 Fat king, one unable to follow the endless rubbish being raised (9)
7 Papal authority needed to look after house on Lundy when vacant (4,3)
11 Disappointing satire on Guy Fawkes’ Night? (4,5)
13 Youngster with drugs kicked off barbecue bash (4,3)
15 Getting in a bother, he gets stoned (6)
18 Revs, originally reformers and Calvinists, eventually succumb (5)
21 Cultivate a clodhopper wearing cape (3)
Quick across
1 Feast of All Saints (13)
8 Unwilling to be photographed (6-3)
9 Carpentry tool (3)
10 Extra inning (baseball); last wicket (cricket) (5)
12 Retreats (7)
13 Port on Puget Sound, the third city of Washington State (6)
14 Clear fluid portion of blood (6)
16 Acceptable to all (7)
17 Former European currency (5)
19 Army; crew (3)
20 Wharf hand (9)
22 First words of Moby Dick after a reference in Genesis to an outcast (4,2,7)
Quick down
1 Racing venue in Berkshire (5)
2 Hit hard (3)
3 Place where the just repose in death: allusion relating to 22 and referenced in Richard III (8,5)
4 Brilliant quality (6)
5 The — — — —–: Samuel Butler novel (1902); unrelated film (1927), with Emil Jannings claiming the first Best Actor Oscar (3,2,3,5)
6 Loss of pain (9)
7 (Anglicized) Hebrew name for a lake fed by the R Jordan (4,3)
11 By night (9)
13 Relating to or associated with heat (esp in surgery) (7)
15 Arab whose land abuts the Red and Arabian Seas (6)
18 Angler’s basket (5)
21 Eggs (3)
Winners (0419 Cryptic): Marie Drake, Chorley; David Moyes, Darlington Winners (0419 Quick): Margaret MacMillan, Isle of Cumbrae; Mrs S Rowe, Gloucesteshire
Sudoku 0421
Solution 0420
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