1 Tax haven protection? That’s woolly (6)
5 Band of hope in the desert? (5)
9 Romania is surprisingly a Near Eastern region (4,5)
10 Book a little foreign currency (3)
11 It’s just not done to jeer in the West, thank you (5)
13 Drugs about to be given in some of best asylums (7)
14 Sodium-rejecting pine is planted in a German city (6)
15 Girl in retro America gets to dog star:… (6)
19 … a twin follower made, looking back, an unknown quantity (7)
21 He was killed by Joab, having being captured by Arab nerds (5)
22 What’s on in the Royal Academy is a retrospective of ‘firsts’ (3)
23 A Lima lad, a demented leader of mountain religion (5,4)
25 F1 driver comes around for tea (5)
26 Army supplier is reportedly more devious (6)
Cryptic down
2 Lie brought out the teacher in Sam (3)
3 Random little number’s got soul (7)
4 Turning embarrassed and negative after years over there (6)
5 Gold lace many discarded at dance (5)
6 Spitting ace dismissed from the army? (9)
7 Norm tucks into a sauce for cabbage (5)
8 One uses repeated phrases, quietly, in escape from snare (6)
12 Show one’s age in bets one makes earlier (9)
16 Greek from Naples one Arab dropped in the drink… (7)
17 … Arab that is not as of older folk (6)
18 Hands around small OT book (6)
19 New Zealand’s bellicose gesture when after key Asian capital (5)
20 Electronic equipment Frenchman gets, after a fashion (5)
24 Astonishment when seeing the contents of drawers (3)
Quick across
1 Aide to Holofernes in the Book of Judith (6)
5 Asian country, capital, Kathmandu (5)
9 Seventh Sunday after Easter (9)
10 — Ferdinand, former Manchester Utd and England footballer (3)
11 Clear, articulate (5)
13 Last book of the OT (7)
14 Small boat navigator (6)
15 School vacation (US): apse, perhaps (6)
19 Type of long-grained rice associated with Indian food (7)
21 Carrion-feeding carnivore of Africa and Asia (5)
22 Compact Israeli submachine gun (3)
23 Town of the edge of the Negev; in OT times the southernmost limit of Israelite territory (9)
25 In the OT, mountain that equ- ates to Mt Hermon, or close to it (5)
26 Woman religious (6)
Quick down
2 French department in the Rhone-Alps region; ‘01’ in the alphabetical listing (3)
3 Outstanding (7)
4 Tempestuous (6)
5 Part of South Africa; formerly a province, capital Durban (5)
6 Term applied to the third person in the Holy Trinity (9)
7 Pope in 1605, only (3,2)
8 Small application program used in computing, originally written in Java script (6)
12 One from a city in SW Asia Minor, a recipient of a letter from Paul… (9)
16 …and the site of the Temple of Artemis: the address of a letter from Paul (7)
17 Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt (6)
18 Fore muscle of the upper arm (6)
19 American music from the early 20th century, a cornerstone later of rock and roll (5)
20 Yellowish fossil resin (5)
24 Dolly, for one? (3)
Winners (0440 Cryptic): Margaret Macmillan, Isle of Cumbrae; Anselm Fidgeon, Wicklow Town Winners (0440 Quick): Francis Beswick, Stretford; CJ Cates, Asfordby
Sudoku 0442
Solution 0441
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