6 Send up poor Timothy’s pal (6)
7 National agency crash demo without legally being cleared (6)
9 Exist, half extinct, as a medieval scholar (4)
10 Early follower of Jesus, Anne, gets confused with Ezra (8)
11 Rajput school’s intake is a revolting mob (6)
13 One noted pirate in the emptiness of space (6)
14 Judah’s king is one terrorist militia follow (3)
15 Hide, not very well, record in a Greek sanctuary (6)
17 Quiet introduction for Romeo’s tenor lead one of the Byrds heard? (6)
19 Keep in check the matter of stress (8)
21 What son of Adam in the KJV says aloud (4)
23 Allowed vehicle into the Beirut area (6)
24 Battle in 1862 to find the Tabernacle here (6)
Cryptic down
1 Log all chocolate eaten around Christmas? (4)
2 He escaped Troy, a desperate Caesarean with no car unfortunately (6)
3 Inform Field Marshal to eschew force after tense Chinese situation (8)
4 Place in Austria leading German, Rwandan and Zambian (4)
5 Arabs ban foreign colleague of Paul (8)
8 One who tends to get jobs without English (5)
12 Instruments binding British with the Spanish against the French upset certain quarters (8)
13 Compose a Mass in time for this? Devil of a thing (8)
16 Old place in Jordan has carpet randomly spread (5)
18 Maybe question in text hostility, almost, to country (6)
20 Play parts like middle-section’s clarinet soullessly (4)
22 God’s judgement giveth no succour ultimately (4)
Quick across
6 Subordinate (6)
7 Legendary 3rd century Irish bard and warrior (6)
9 Internecine fighting (4)
10 Germanic settler in 5th century Spain (8)
11 Arachnid (6)
13 Mountain range where Elijah challenged prophets of Baal (6)
14 — and the Dragon, final part of the Book of Daniel (3)
15 Ice or roller? (6)
17 —— Sunday, the one which falls closest to St Andrew’s Day (6)
19 Clergyman who watches over a group of people (8)
21 Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen (4)
23 Tom ——, Mark Twain classic (6)
24 Romano-British ‘saint’, removed from the Catholic calendar of saints in its 1969 revision (6)
Quick down
1 Any of nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (4)
2 Shuhite friend of Job (6)
3 OT book of sound advice, with instructions on many themes (8)
4 Grandmother of Timothy (4)
5 Temple to all the gods (8)
8 Lord Alan —–, former chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, among other things (5)
12 King of Israel c736-35 BCE, assassinated by his captain (8)
13 Roman emperor between Caligula and Nero (8)
16 Slave girl in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (5)
18 Expert in, or follower of the most ancient writings of Hinduism (6)
20 Jane —-, novel by Charlotte Bronte (4)
22 Without help (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0424: Across: 5 City of David, 7 Wren, 8 Casanova, 9 Isidore, 11 Senna, 12 Jesse, 14 Insight, 18 Idealism, 19 Fume, 20 Mount Hermon. Down: 1 Atoned, 2 Concur, 3 Id est, 4 Evince, 5 Christendom, 6 Divine-human, 10 Eli, 13 Snap up, 15 Number, 16 Infamy, 17 Pieta. Down: 1 Atoned, 2 Concur, 3 Id est, 4 Evince, 5 Christendom, 6 Divine-human, 10 Eli, 13 Snap up, 15 Number, 16 Infamy, 17 Pieta.
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