7 Few protect a line dancer in the NT (6)
8 Cow the ex-President to link up with university (6)
9 Messianic piece in Isaiah of creep in cape going about (6,2,5)
10 Quiet achiever, the man from the Ministry (8)
13 Being dull and English, 4’s nemesis is a lot of sand (4)
14 Shock getting second barrel (4)
16 Scale of wind in British station is result of rainfall in France (8)
19 Illegal Volga transport, billions involved, sees effect of the world wide web (6,7)
21 Daisy, close to London, is back on board ship (6)
22 Changes today appropriate at school (6)
Cryptic down
1 German River, really another alpine stream at source, when rising (4)
2 Saint? Name a woman who found Jesus’ tomb empty (6)
3 Checked Eshcol nursing home for Barak (6)
4 One often in a trap, sometimes part of 13? (6)
5 Leah, with no aspiration, perhaps, follows a scene from a distance? (6)
6 Anton, he wrote pieces about rugby’s link to a broken neck, in Brazil, on-line (8)
11 No sentiment when a book is dropped from OT (8)
12 She’s the first woman to leave after Christmas, perhaps, or before? (3)
15 Race fixer’s not British – more honourable (6)
16 Go, grow tall (6)
17 Spoil one to a degree when elevating a conspirator of Moses (6)
18 Football club’s almost packed out at home this morning… (6)
20 …crammed support making for great attendance figure (4)
Quick across
7 Vaulted room; legislative chamber (6)
8 Consecrate (6)
9 Members of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in 1732 initially for missionary work among the poor of Naples (13)
10 Musical intervals of one octave and a fifth (8)
13 Pack away (4)
14 Capri, for one (4)
16 Heartfelt compassion and pity for someone (8)
19 Partake in the Eucharistic liturgy of the Catholic Church (9,4)
21 Race horse without a win (6)
22 Football, hockey or cricket team (6)
Quick down
1 ‘Beyond the —-’, figuratively, not acceptable; from the Latin for ‘stake’, literally the fence which keeps out barbarians (4)
2 Lay bare; display (6)
3 Indian descended from the Hindu ruling caste (6)
4 Drays, buggies, etc (6)
5 Son of the author of an eponymous OT book (6)
6 Jeremiah’s birthplace (8)
11 Pertaining to or characteristic of a branch of Methodist Protestantism (8)
12 — on-Wye, home to an annual literary festival (3)
15 Blue-pencils, revises (6)
16 Poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) (6)
17 That which has mass and occupies space: concern (6)
18 Hosts; ground forces (6)
20 Seats in bishops’ dioceses where their cathedrals are situated (4)
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