1 Rod’s left in a chopper (4)
3 Joseph’s place is found in damaged Tehran A-Z (8)
9 Book comfortable-sounding passage to a Baltic port (7)
10 Chaplain of Artillery’s name escapes (5)
11 Scents of summer for one coming back after missing the middle of May (5)
12 Polynesian gown number put on new (6)
14 Judge what is good for Idaho with time (6)
16 Not fair being coloured (6)
18 One NT book about a country (6)
19 Steal a line from Abigail’s man (5)
22 Language that spread through Cochin diaspora (5)
23 Abstainer packs items of clothing in Delhi for royalist (7)
24 Bishop of Worcester’s shivering wasn’t flu (8)
25 Count, the first among royal Etonians last year (4)
Cryptic down
1 Mate of Daniel’s gone funny after lying in (8)
2 Is in charge, they say, of a new diocese (5)
4 Jacks’ dead, remove the organ (6)
5 The most uplifting time of year? (9,3)
6 Teams of nine detailed close targets on the periphery (7)
7 Stern with those furthest to the rear abandoning the majority (4)
8 Calling stars they are trying to convert (12)
13 Exodus banned this wedding oath: verse has a vacuous titter content (8)
15 Princess’ lunar frolics are lasting all day (7)
17 Bethany, lady to spoil with a new hat (6)
20 One in business casually to make in the end, cloth (5)
21 Arab craft of lead drawing begs the question (4)
Quick across
1 Charitable relief of the poor as a religious duty (4)
3 Roman martyr and Deacon of Rome (d 528) (8)
9 Having money to spend (2,5)
10 Crowded (5)
11 French farewell (5)
12 Noun to which the adjective ‘aestival’ relates (6)
14 Point of view (6)
16 Unit of a poem (6)
18 World’s second-largest country in area (6)
19 Cuban dance (5)
22 Passage of music for the whole orchestra (5)
23 Russian, traditionally horseman of the Steppes (7)
24 One of a Syrian Uniat community, in formal communion with the RC Church since 1182 (8)
25 In ball sports, a delicate chip or lob (4)
Quick down
1 Custodian of the Ark of the Covenant when temporarily stored on its return from Philistia (8)
2 Civilian clothes (5)
4 Back up (6)
5 Member of the ‘Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer’, founded in 1732 (12)
6 Yellow cotton cloth bearing the old name of the Chinese city where it was first made (7)
7 Cumbrian river harking back to Genesis? (4)
8 Gabriel’s pronouncement to Mary that she would bear the Messiah (12)
13 OT book and Judean prophet at the time of the Babylonian Ascendency (8)
15 Thickly daub (7)
17 (Obscenely) wealthy businessman (3,3)
20 Extinct Algonquian tribe of the Great Lakes; premier resort of the Southern States (5)
21 Biblical town between Bethlehem and Tekoa (4)
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