1 She, unfaithful to the prophet, married an all-round raver (5)
4 New York socialite is a cleric but no longer quiet (5)
10 Biblical king’s hors d’oeuvre to go (7)
11 Place for meeting Pythagoras accepted (5)
12 Essential oil Tatar splashed about (5)
13 Spanish saint’s name is one matter of an earlier affair (7)
14 Wager and drink after starting to smoke (5)
16 Greek island’s church – one overly large for the island (5)
21 Supremacy English held through naval support and railway (7)
23 Instrument one A-lister carries (5)
25 Church leader leaves home (5)
26 One from Perugia’s starting off from the Lakes, perhaps (7)
27 Captain on Antarctica trip epitomized Scott-like leadership (5)
28 One gets to book very late and dine out at ten (5)
Cryptic down
2 Eight with Officer Commanding find Vietnam War offensive (5)
3 Rome rep’s busy, he’s in charge of a large area (7)
5 One crawled on top of religious leader? (5)
6 Sweet wine from Oslo or roughly roundabout (7)
7 OT king in the style of British king’s bearing (5)
8 Elsinore crony is back, mixing with an odd goblin-like creature (5)
9 C Bale played one of Moses’ twelve spies (5)
15 I regularly read through last note to lawyer Paul visited here (7)
17 Place for Henry; he’s top and good in French and in Numbers (7)
18 Short period around Christmas leaves one glowing? (5)
19 King’s island in the Med has no parking (5)
20 At times put up four from a literary family here in New York (5)
22 See inside, initially right into, bird’s nest (5)
24 Original Tantric ritual is old hat (5)
Quick across
1 Vicious winged monster; grasping malicious woman (5)
4 County and town of central Ireland (5)
10 Sister of Herod Agrippa II (7)
11 Put up (5)
12 Undressed kidskin (5)
13 Romano-English name for Golgotha (7)
14 Gounod opera based on Marlowe’s tragedy and other sources (5)
16 Highlanders, for instance, and other Erse-speaking Celts (5)
21 Spring in the Kidron Valley (2,5)
23 Progeny (5)
25 Distinctive spirit of a culture or an era (5)
26 Son of Poseidon: general and later a separatist ruler of part of the Greek Seleucid kingdom (7)
27 23 of David (5)
28 One who intervenes and makes arrangements (often illegally) on behalf of another (5)
Quick down
2 Be of one mind (5)
3 Priest and grandson of Aaron; and son of Eli of the same name (7)
5 Be of use to; benefit (5)
6 Wife of Nabal, then David (7)
7 Exploitation: swearing (5)
8 Sailing vessel with two masts (5)
9 Gemstone of various colours (5)
15 First ancestor of the nation of Israel (7)
17 Nephew of David, the brother of Joab (7)
18 Small three-masted commercial ship of the Mediterranean (5)
19 The —–, Homer-attributed epic on the siege of Troy… (5)
20 …being —– in the metre of dactylic hexameter (5)
22 Zest; enjoyment (5)
24 One from Uppsala, for instance (5)
Crossword answers
Cryptic answers to No 0500: Across: 1 Cleopas, 5 Midge, 8 Align, 9 Nourish, 10 Take it in turns, 11 Bemuse, 12 Guides, 15 Ho Chi Minh City, 18 Agitate, 19 Odium, 20 Niece, 21 Stepson. Down: 1 Chant, 2 Eliakim, 3 Pontius Pilate, 4 Sunlit, 5 Mount Rushmore, 6 Drier, 7 Ephesus, 11 Bahrain, 13 Deifies, 14 Divers, 16 Chime, 17 Yemen.
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