7 Country girl is able to move forward (6)
8 More idiotic, comparatively barmy, but not around the bend (6)
9 Inclination when bowling? (4)
10 Skip the festival (8)
11 City’s name Cathars took initially from ancient Languedoc-based iconoclasts (4)
12 Ray’s daydream to get many to support airline is over (8)
14 One coming out retrospectively about articles to pool (8)
16 Italian city state trek (4)
18 Restraint’s not ‘in’, it follows (8)
21 Indian location, regarding agriculture, misses rain badly (4)
22 She deity, via obfuscation, is sent to Coventry? (6)
23 Where Noah dried out a deserter after rain half-stopped (6)
Cryptic down
1 Book about a Norseman on Latin (6)
2 Where Jonah went with Jack for a kind of kebab (8)
3 Confrontation over parking at ‘Star Trek’ speed (4)
4 Girl holding a snake scattered people (8)
5 Crime boss clipped accountant on an Italian river… (4)
6 …money no longer’s buried in vegetable plot (6)
12 Inarticulate fail to hit the very top (8)
13 Paul’s missionary manoeuvring Arabs ban (8)
15 Newsman’s held over one issue he invented (6)
17 Exodus woman, on edge being a month in France, set up (6)
19 He was a killer in California’s north (4)
20 Bow man spotted, it’s announced, one of the feuding twins (4)
Quick across
7 Joseph’s eldest brother (6)
8 Art form associated with Pavlova and Nijinsky (6)
9 Wife, and sister, of Zeus (4)
10 High Priest who rebuilt Jerusalem’s Sheep Gate (8)
11 Mother of Dinah (4)
12 Joseph’s first master in Egypt (8)
14 Strictly-observant Jew: a self-righteous or sanctimonious person (8)
16 California’s premier wine-producing valley (4)
18 One who believes in, has reverence for, the devil (8)
21 Alternative, more famous, name for the city of Ilium (4)
22 Boring insect such as the shipworm (6)
23 Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in several fields (6)
Quick down
1 Calm (6)
2 Son of Ahimelech, priest of Nob (8)
3 Saint, the mother of Mary (4)
4 Strong green liqueur flavoured with wormwood and anise (8)
5 Regrettably (4)
6 KJV name for Malta (6)
12 Brother of Zeus, Hades and 9; identified with Roman Neptune (8)
13 Remorseful; confessor (8)
15 Someone who plays practical jokes on others (6)
17 Support (4,2)
19 Bellicose Greek deity prominent at 21 (4)
20 West African country, capital Lome (4)
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