1 Let slip when riding horse to Yorkshire town (6)
4 Master has in the KJV besieged King Toi’s place (6)
9 A new terrace to the west of Mountain Ash (5)
10 Uproar in court is unusual (7)
11 Frame Charlie and a little relative (7)
12 He went with Paul excavating relics of Basil, a saint (5)
13 Assyrian king is a nasty mean hassler (11)
18 Come again about dog (5)
20 Murderer’s appropriate incarceration officer specified (7)
22 Polish town Germans take in sabre slaughter (7)
23 Starting rows at home and boozing give a girl in Jericho a bad name (5)
24 A Russian river’s particularly attractive cove (6)
25 Sailors reach American city of St Paul (6)
Cryptic down
1 Book to ban at university and church (6)
2 Sidewalk’s almost too quiet with rebel about to get high (7)
3 Criminal finally is ejected after turning up at Irish town (5)
5 Sly look at where the primate sits (4-3)
6 To fall ill regularly in-house is concerning for Prospero’s man (5)
7 Frank’s courtesy title is used in Paris (6)
8 Ascari’s hurt badly being with Paul in drive to Rome? (11)
14 Danger for sailors on the Rhine is legend – and a blasted lie (7)
15 After recording around Pennsylvania in this style when starting off, he discovered Memphis (7)
16 Road graduate fine artist goes down to find exotic place (6)
17 Remove collar from good dog – that’s the Egyptian spirit! (6)
19 I believe in Latin for the masses (5)
21 Get via Georgia to town Paul visited (5)
Quick across
1 Dr ——’s Casebook, popular BBC drama series, 1962-71 (6)
4 In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus (6)
9 Sufficient (5)
10 Enduring (7)
11 Relating to a reformed French monastic order founded in 910 (7)
12 Lassitude (5)
13 Religious order’s name given to a liqueur produced in Normandy (11)
18 Hebrew prophet and law-giver (5)
20 In a battle at Gob, the son of Jair who killed Goliath’s brother (7)
22 Kenneth ——-, author of The Wind in the Willows (7)
23 Swiss alpine resort (5)
24 English county: name of a light horse-drawn carriage (6)
25 Prophet who delivered God’s judgement to David after the Bathsheba affair (6)
Quick down
1 Shambles (6)
2 Eighth planet from the Sun, discovered in 1846 (7)
3 Short name for a particular Caucasian native (5)
5 Name shared by 14 popes between 96 to 1774 (7)
6 Japanese samurai warrior without a master (5)
7 Name given to the genus of sage and a colourful summer bedding plant (6)
8 High priest in Genesis to whom Jesus in the NT is said to be of his order (11)
14 Patron saint of Madrid (7)
15 Tigris city founded by Nimrod (7)
16 Impressions (6)
17 Oneness (6)
19 Part of a flight? (5)
21 Many-headed monster destroyed by Heracles (5)
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