7 Here Paul has trouble with Jews; robe’s torn and team edges away (6)
8 Book for the journey? (6)
9 Spot the saint (4)
10 Rest of Mac’s band returned getting a note in ancient Syrian (8)
11 What’s in a cigarette is somewhere between heroin and herbs – the beginning of soft drugs (7)
13 Bitch of a place in Salop, neither southern nor northern town (5)
15 See 17
17/15 Plant as seen through a broken grimy lorgnon (7-5)
20 Jacob’s lad gets an Indian meal after a short rest (8)
21 Plans the way back for World War II tinned food (4)
22 Cleric’s firm, collected, for a second (6)
23 Jerk, idiot, is going to church (6)
Cryptic down
1 State in which little boy and girl are found (6)
2 See a chocolate bar that’s bitten off (4)
3 Faith’s hit in France, but is carried (7)
4 Ethiopian race faced up to the superior Zulu (5)
5 New hat Joan is sporting before becoming David’s mate (8)
6 Grow baby moth which eventually devoured little Fido (6)
12 Those who dissent over 23s are in this place (8)
14 Philistines champion town in which oil is refined? (7)
16 Bread makes East End girl get a bum (6)
18 Subtle shade? (6)
19 Food that’s divine for male and female (5)
21 Wash cycle after a quick trip (4)
Quick across
7 Tube-nosed pelagic bird with long wings (6)
8 Piles of stones – memorials, boundary markers, paths or reference points (6)
9 Bellicose Roman equivalent of 2? (4)
10 Runaway slave who became a Christian and helped Paul in prison (8)
11 Parent of Jacob and Esau (7)
13 African river and country (5)
15 Athenian Greek of old (5)
17 One of two famous saints associated with an Umbrian town (7)
20 Roman province of Asia Minor, an important centre of Christianity (8)
21 Young deer (4)
22 Semi-precious gemstone, usually red (6)
23 The interior (6)
Quick down
1 Goddess of witchcraft, daughter of the Titan Perses (6)
2 Bellicose Greek equivalent of 9? (4)
3 One of two who met Jesus on the road to Emmaus after the Crucifixion (7)
4 Chamber work, with classic examples from Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn (5)
5 One from a dangerous mountain area of Asia Minor, between Perga and Antioch, through which Paul passed (8)
6 Perfectly pitched; agreeing (2,4)
12 Church feast day, the Greek for ‘manifestation’ (8)
14 Balkan republic, capital Zagreb (7)
16 Popular name for the Republic of China (6)
18 Natives of Des Moines (6)
19 Nautical miles per hour (5)
21 Tissue thin sheets of pastry used especially in Greek dishes (4)
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