6 Kind of black hole appears after a short time to one in Exodus (6)
8 Dried fruit offered in case there’s no bar in the Manchester area (6)
9 Destructive powerful woman is after some back alimony (4)
10 Incarnation of the devil with a parrot’s leg (8)
11 African’s tiny page in evolution (8)
14 Certain weight this city needs to be credible? (4)
15 Book this morning before it gets very big (4)
17 Both came uneasily to a ritual killing (8)
19 Atlas issues, they go by seven stars in the sky (8)
21 Early victim familiar of Abraham’s line (4)
23 Hymn, a note to God, is in Latin (2,4)
24 There’s not any sign of volcanicity going west at an Arthurian site (6)
Cryptic down
1 The odd British interest is evident in each fort of Asa (4)
2 Net result of a random commando raid on vessel? (6)
3 Mount in Deuteronomy – the first of nags ever backed on (4)
4 American cat gets to duck church a great deal (6)
5 Tramp through many pages, finding a lot of bubbly stuff (8)
7 Graduate in Idaho desperately needs this book (7)
12 He taught Paul about African country’s Irish (8)
13 Introducing lettuce strain into a backward French department needs capital (7)
16 French party’s anger British wartime agents curbed (6)
18 Leaves home for the char woman? That’s offensive (3,3)
20 One assembles in Russia dirty stuff arising on CIA’s base (4)
22 Pop fashionista turned up in the wake of the drugs situation in Genesis (4)
Quick across
6 Jansenist and French tragedian who based his works on classical themes (1639-99) (6)
8 Battlefield shout (6)
9 North of England river (4)
10 Hebrew minor prophet and OT book (8)
11 City of modern SW Turkey where Paul addressed a letter to its church (8)
14 Mary Baker —-, founder of Christian Science (4)
15 Fix firmly; gouge (4)
17 Angelic sorts (8)
19 Valley of the Obarim where God wanted the prince of Magog buried (5-3)
21 Kind of biscuit given to babies (4)
23 The eye’s protective film (6)
24 One-dimensional (6)
Quick down
1 Top of the head (4)
2 Humiliating failure or debacle (6)
3 Blackleg (4)
4 Bet on four or more horses in different races: large sailing jib (6)
5 Figure of the lamb; emblematic of Christ (5,3)
7 Site of the temple of Artemis (7)
12 Obsolete (8)
13 Spring in the Kidron Valley (2,5)
16 Kind of zipped sweatshirt; name given to its wearer, often associated with gang culture (6)
18 Cutting or shaving skin, peel, etc (6)
20 Incite (4)
22 Former name of Thailand (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0431:Across: 5 Amphipolis, 7 Athens, 8 Ophrah, 9 Copt, 11 Edmonton, 13 Dioceses, 14 Ache, 15 Relics, 17 Solely, 19 Just in time. Down: 1 Apse, 2 Minsters, 3 Yoko, 4 Bithynia, 5 Authorized, 6 La Rochelle, 10 Tychicus, 12 Misusing, 16 Sett, 18 Lois.
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