6 Successor to Moses is joke by film studio initially (6)
8 Heard, he did, and understood (6)
9 Drink queen eschewed in a biblical city (4)
10 Great distance in pursuit of a song – that’s an incentive to travel (3,5)
11 Paul’s old tutor is all image, unfortunately (8)
14 Central line’s becoming an unknown quantity, one of maybe three? (4)
15 Malevolent spirit, imp, at last getting dander up? (4)
17 Ace dudes can be converted into Sanhedrin types (8)
19 High Priest to judge a post when power’s taken by bishop (8)
21 Prophet Diana mostly embraced (4)
23 Seat maybe useless in the front of circle to see singer (6)
24 Sadly rue the cutting down of Benjamin, his half-brother (6)
Cryptic down
1 Sign the Holy Spirit has dived in America? (4)
2 Koran law banning the content of Scottish song (6)
3 Writer, to the French, leaves one to believe in myths (4)
4 Mum’s almost aristocratic middle name is an old Maltese one (6)
5 Fine tree sculpture defines the holiday resort (8)
7 Plants the Company infiltrated into the arbitration service (7)
12 Flea maybe shows the better way forward? (1,3,4)
13 Place in Gilead, in the end, to keep out of, see (2-5)
16 One crashing into the sea’s vehicle, you tweeted, is submerged (6)
18 Something not of this world took control of America, going after uranium (6)
20 Catch a place in Hampshire… (4)
22 …having left for a short spell? (4)
Quick across
6 One of a tribe whose ancestors were Jacob and Zilpah (6)
8 Hypothesis; supposition (6)
9 Romano-British ‘Aquae Sulis’ (4)
10 Shade of white (paint) (8)
11 Wife of Ananias who, like her husband, dropped dead after lying to God through Peter (8)
14 Kind of cat; characteristic of a Douglas native (4)
15 God offended by Daphnis (4)
17 Coastal area (8)
19 Example; a basic 8 (8)
21 Partially carbonized vegetable matter used as a fuel when dried (4)
23 Plant genus popularly extended to the Acacia (6)
24 Part of the Union of Kalmar, 1397-1523, federation of European states (6)
Quick down
1 Third-largest island of Indonesia; the world’s 13th in size (4)
2 Senior member of the Christian clergy; in some churches a successor of the twelve Apostles (6)
3 Male deer, especially an adult (4)
4 Arabian opponent of Nehemiah to the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls (6)
5 Asian country whose ancient name was Serendip (3,5)
7 Hebrew prophet of the 6th century BC who was exiled to Babylon (7)
12 Sea bound by Italy and the Balkan countries (8)
13 Sister of Apollo (7)
16 Biblical Israel’s coastal plain from Joppa to Caesarea (6)
18 Universal seabird with long narrow wings; sometimes called a fish hawk (6)
20 Officer who leads the devotions in a mosque (4)
22 Summit; crown (4)
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