7 Host for Jesus in hero’s temple is irregular (5,3,5)
8 Average chaps, like one of the Seven Deacons (8)
9 Tim’s reference in relation to Miss Lane? (4)
10 Strip from underwear? This needs explaining later! (7)
12 Mountains seen in books, finally? Not quite (5)
14 Letter, the 18th returned via Madam Gish (5)
16 Able set of musicians? (7)
19 Lot came here to open zoos or animal reserves (4)
20 Monk, American, has abridged part of the Mass… (8)
22 …he’s head of RC archivist organization (5,2,6)
Cryptic down
1 Half of Jerusalem graduate taking the subject of Saul (4)
2 Pass on damage to Alsace town (6)
3 Judge Manx alternative, taking on board Ulster shortfall in the end (7)
4 In Nice I have ship bearing the father of the King (5)
5 7 in name, maybe, but not sick militant (6)
6 Get Eliab, etc, to play virginal (8)
11 At certain times one is getting overdose, immersed in blockbuster (8)
13 Princess remember, Nicea captured (7)
15 Name of guy, one being embraced at one in the morning by a famous sister (6)
17 Kings and queens died during total defeat after southern uprising (6)
18 Can’t stand, abandon Abraham’s place and go to makeshift harbour (5)
21 Ball’s eventually in hole, finding edge (4)
Quick across
7 Feast of All Saints (13)
8 Terminated (8)
9 Deception (4)
10 Natural bituminous material used in road-making (7)
12 The Gem State, the 43rd of the Union (1890) (5)
14 Its leaf is the Canadian national emblem (5)
16 Of recent nativity (7)
19 Percussion instrument (4)
20 Warlike biblical folk living east of Babylonia as long ago as 3000 BC (8)
22 Acolyte of a US religious movement founded in the 1950s by L Ron Hubbard (13)
Quick down
1 Town of the French Tarn which gave its name to an heretical Catharist sect in medieval times (4)
2 Arab or Muslim leader (6)
3 First Bishop of Sherborne, 705-09 (7)
4 Old-fashioned; drab (5)
5 Diverted (6)
6 Patriarch son of Jacob and Leah (8)
11 Companion of Daniel, Hananiah before his named was changed (8)
13 Sixfold text in parallel columns, especially of the OT (7)
15 Wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material (6)
17 Whist-based card game (6)
18 Brief but vigorous fight (3-2)
21 Move quietly; edge (4)
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