7 Apostle negotiated Asa’s absurd jab (5,8)
8 Peg, she used to kill jungle animals, even lions, in the early days (4)
9 Gland’s removed initially from a superior rat (8)
10 Bucks town being victorious against depression (7)
12 He looks everywhere for a new French gravy to pour over (5)
14 Lots of land? (5)
15 Don somehow escaped from an oddball long-haired tobacco exporter (7)
17 Hat-trick deliveries? (8)
18 The French politician gets a shiner (4)
19 Revelation: attributed author assassinated the Hove Djinni (4,3,6)
Cryptic down
1 Brother of Jesus’ stoic air crumbled, when according to Barnabas, he was crucified (5,8)
2 Spirit created without a laboratory check (4)
3 Knocking tooth back, Romeo out-muscles David’s boy (7)
4 Last job is a superior post for many (5)
5 Fury having to go into a map of Paris to find a classical site (8)
6 Final assessment: this is what a good cobbler needs to have, perhaps (4,9)
11 Treading on cats and dogs, giving rise to a high-pitched noise (8)
13 Restricted those in favour in coming ashore to Dundee (7)
16 Articles in English and French on the river from hell (5)
18 Eli – veiled – is hiding to have fun (4)
Quick across
7 Roman ‘client’ king of Judea from c 40 BC (5,3,5)
8 In the USA, the Beehive State, the 45th of the Union (4)
9 Strabismus, ocular problem often called squint (5-3)
10 Heavy thick yellow fog (3,4)
12 Sacrificial site (5)
14 Spin; pirouette (5)
15 USAF base, California: scene of many returning space flights (7)
17 Circumspect; secretive (8)
18 Lifeline of Egyptian civilization (4)
19 Macedonians, the object of two epistles from Paul (13)
Quick down
1 Boxing category, limit 57 Kg (13)
2 The ancient mariner, perhaps (4)
3 Haughty; overly conceited or arrogant (5-2)
4 Author of Robinson Crusoe: striker for Tottenham and Sunderland (5)
5 Daughter of Herod Agrippa I (8)
6 Woman, ‘who had a bad name in the town’, healed by Jesus (4,9)
11 Sicilian city where Paul rested after being ship-wrecked (8)
13 Form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published (7)
16 City from where men helped Solomon and Hiram prepare materials for building the Temple (5)
18 Town near Nazareth where Jesus brought a widow’s son back to life (4)
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