7 Someone Paul addressed after show, one decked in brown (8)
8 Times chap’s taken a see-through shot (1-3)
9 Rhode Island excluded nuisance cleric (6)
10 One under 9 on speed copper got (6)
11 With the National Trust and a detailed collection of maps, open up a Georgian city (7)
13 Paul’s companion on board is a stern-looking Arab (5)
15 Far south region to which part of the Bible is restricted in the past (5)
17 Ready to sit, shaking after big dipper? (7)
20 End drinking French wine that’s heavenly (6)
21 Jerusalem water source is Somali, funnily (6)
23 Strip search for Samson here? (4)
24 One may feather one’s nest taking from drug plant about a kilo – and what’s more … (8)
Cryptic down
1 … echo 24’s family (6)
2 Beer by the yard served on the Ivy Leaguers (4)
3 Civilization has a popular song, note, written about it over time (7)
4 Pine for one going northward, heading into hell to find Abraham’s boy (5)
5 Must be a charmer to melt stoic Rex (8)
6 Virgil’s birthplace revealed by astronaut namesake during descent (6)
12 I am able to support the blessed Lang, being one from Canterbury (8)
14 Bag makes a return with another accessory to clerical fashion (7)
16 Triplicated an undefined number in examination (6)
18 Hank for one is tricked, taken in by swine (6)
19 Muslims come here to draw (5)
22 Book part where hard of hearing need sound, ultimately off, left on (4)
Quick across
7 One of Jacob’s twelve sons (8)
8 Wild hog (4)
9 Black mark (6)
10 Golfer’s assistant (6)
11 Hebrew word meaning ‘nation’; latterly used to distinguish non-Jewish people from Jews (7)
13 Sloping edge on a cutting tool (5)
15 Rootless mostly aquatic organisms (5)
17 Judge and prophetess who fought the Canaanites (7)
20 Unit of luminous intensity (6)
21 Cool (6)
23 Dandy; boyfriend (4)
24 Companion of Paul, a missionary in Galatia (8)
Quick down
1 Struggle (6)
2 Adult male deer, sometimes with antlers (4)
3 Moral tale from the gospels (7)
4 (Female) sorcerer or magician (5)
5 Thrown into an inferno, he survived with God’s protection (8)
6 In grammar, the case expressing an indirect object (6)
12 Apostle known as Judas (son of James) in Luke’s Gospel and Acts (8)
14 In Exodus, the craftsman who built the Tabernacle (7)
16 Hard to lift; heavy (6)
18 Fruit kernel of a peach-related tree (6)
19 For this reason, therefore (5)
22 Scottish sea or inland waterway (4)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0434:Across: 7 Obsidian, 8 Omen, 9 Hasp, 10 Chapters, 11 Bear pit, 12 Harpy, 15 Tithe, 17 Pauline, 20 Tactless, 22 Iowa, 23 Parr, 24 Carthage. Down: 1 Abrade, 2 Zipporah, 3 Hitchin, 4 Incan, 5 Font, 6 Rear up, 13 All-night, 14 Maestro, 16 In a way, 18 New Age, 19 Fence, 21 Tyre.
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