7 Norm, a Spanish gent and yours truly get apologies (6,2)
8 Champion of Israel is last to see Newman film (4)
9 In haste, reorganize source of music (6)
10 Early in the week, the first half, after girl’s reached a peak (6)
11 Article’s account, a review, of a miraculous place (4)
13 Coats Ely redesigned for priests’ assistants (8)
15 Two girls, one Welsh-sounding, come here to find Jonathan in the end (4-4)
18 Nip back to see some jazz (4)
19 Vulgate book SS dare to violate (6)
21 Ancient law of marbles laid down by Greeks (6)
23 Mineral Catholics got rid of, seeing the state of the Jews (4)
24 A breaking, with-it number Teddy Boy’s chosen (8)
Cryptic down
1 Classical site’s book of prophecy is revealed in Paris map (8)
2 Change, going west, the course of the German-Polish border (4)
3 Yarn nonsense kicks off in the marketplace (6)
4 Get Midianite priest, sometimes called Black, round after a little time (6)
5 Various energy exercises are needed to get round Ibsen’s work (4,4)
6 Peacekeeper keeps flanking sections of 4 at bay in the Normandy beachhead (4)
12 Hate nerd, a freaky hanger-on (8)
14 Easterners of old put a chap down (8)
16 Old-fashioned cheer heard for the cavalryman (6)
17 Work by Elgar one guy, an Oxford man, holds in the ascendant (6)
20 Cornish hog, no starter, takes on swill (4)
22 Knock back the black stuff after sipping at first (4)
Quick across
7 Citizen of a biblical East Jordan state: iconic Jurassic fossil (8)
8 Edible plant seed of the family Leguminosae (4)
9 Judge’s chamber (6)
10 Narcissism (6)
11 Nomadic tribe of S Russia which swept into the Roman Empire after 370AD (4)
13 Pope, second of the name, who tried to end the Papacy’s Saeculum obscurum in the10th century (8)
15 High Priest who helped rebuild Jerusalem (8)
18 Make an impression (4)
19 Money lender (6)
21 Avenue tree? (6)
23 Softest substance in Mohs scale of mineral hardness (4)
24 First of pharaohs bearing the same name who was contemporaneous with Solomon (variant spelling) (8)
Quick down
1 Messiah, as named in Matthew from a reference in Isaiah (NJB spelling) (8)
2 Portend, augur (4)
3 Tropical pest which makes a loud chirping sound (6)
4 100 centimos, as was (6)
5 Antiquated, defunct (8)
6 Zig-zags (naut) (4)
12 One of Daniel’s three companions in Babylon (8)
14 Anointings, or ointments (8)
16 Formal denial or doubt of any defined doctrine of the RC Church (6)
17 Straw hat (6)
20 Wash or apply liquid with a cloth or brush; mop down (4)
22 Have a hankering: dull pain (4)
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