1 It’s Og’s place to pan article (6)
4 One ducked into amphora by our lot is the ruler of the synagogue (6)
9 Hitchcock’s classic traditional matriarch? (7)
10 Striking a couple of sixes in front of Don… (5)
11 …got inbred rat out in the line-up at Lord’s (7,5)
13 He conspired against Moses, the old patriarch, hiding one’s first name (6)
15 Roman procurator’s sanctimonious and dead (6)
17 Lent, on the first Sunday, aged marquis a potty (12)
20 Mystic travelled over water to get to India (5)
21 Boy, athletic type, is in a bad place for a Highlander (7)
22 A boy king, son of Eliphaz (6)
23 Make good boundaries to secure a hundred without delay (2,4)
Cryptic down
1 Rod’s covering of a 70s band; is he the one with a record being released? (8)
2 OT character’s returned, having lost one clog (5)
3 Matriarch Enid is horrid to Father Superior (13)
5 Bill gets promotion (13)
6 Nice surroundings – literally, they say! (7)
7 Down cava and, blotto, declines at first fizzy drink (4)
8 Bum died in pen (5)
12 One in 19 loses colour on drugs taken in Nebraska (8)
14 I am due a change – will go to Edom (7)
16 Achieve much after exchanging words about North Dakota city (5)
18 It’s an old South American entry at the film festival, reportedly (5)
19 Islamic State’s downed in anti-aircraft cover here (4)
Quick across
1 ‘——’, popular title of ‘Variations on an Original Theme’ by Elgar (6)
4 Daughter of Caleb (6)
9 Epithet for Jesus used in the Gospels as equating to ‘master’ (7)
10 French wine region (5)
11 Sedimentary rocks of the Carboniferous geological period (4,8)
13 Term used in certain Bibles for ‘creditor’ or ‘money-lender’ (6)
15 —— Africanus, great Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 BC (6)
17 Heaven or hell (3,9)
20 Piece of music for the whole orchestra (5)
21 Sihon’s capital (7)
22 Bring to light; dig up (6)
23 One-dimensional (6)
Quick down
1 Man who fell to his death during Paul’s sermon at Troas and, embraced by Paul, returned to life (8)
2 First wife of Donald Trump (5)
3 Formal, perhaps outmoded, name for Islam (13)
5 Name shared by a college at Oxford and at Cambridge: Body of Christ (6,7)
6 Strengthen (5,2)
7 Part of the foot or shoe: one morally reprehensible (4)
8 Husband of Bathsheba (5)
12 Real or titular ruler, especially of a state, province or colony (8)
14 Divorce; release (from) (7)
16 Greedy: irritating (5)
18 Permeate; inspire (5)
19 Infection on the edge of the eye (4)
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