1/10 Pot fiasco is risibly awful by that very fact (4,5)
3 Paul’s landing here is close, almost by island after putting fifty in position (8)
9 Italian like 17 can turn into something similar (7)
10 See 1
11 Hancock’s place, to the east, where sun rises before morning church begins (5)
12 Pagan chart contains (in years) all those returning (6)
14 Utter an endless bitter tirade (6)
16 Sad state of one, a happy but unfulfilled wife of Philemon (6)
19 Plunder the church – take off the lead (6)
21 European river, one mentioned in the tales (5)
24 Peron returned after citizen’s tipped off (5)
25 Affluent East German’s heading west, but is he burying his head in the sand? (7)
26 Daughter of Ahab and a muse to Ahaziah in the end (8)
27 Zibeon’s boy, the first among all nations after Hittites (4)
Cryptic down
1 Father’s vessel’s first-class, about to go north to fish (8)
2 Battle several thousand engaged in (5)
4 Sound wave to make exception for? (6)
5 Bloated after kind of pastry’s an unknown quantity (5)
6 Where Joshua fought to keep his front of heavy artillery heading through left-centre of theatre (7)
7 Mark’s stigma? (4)
8 Target that’s identified for this popular jazzy number, as they may say? (6)
13 Town where Asa destroyed an army and a great Persian horse on top (8)
15 Elizabethan hero makes capital in the Carolinas (7)
17 Roman procurator’s sanctimonious and dead (6)
18 Broadcasting her name all over, traces Juliet here, somewhere in Italy (6)
20 Spam’s made here by English chain, for instance (5)
22 Murderer and adulterer’s side no one backed to take (5)
23 George Baker features shown in border town Asa fortified (4)
Quick across
1 Edith —-: France’s ‘Little Sparrow’, famous for the song La Vie en Rose (4)
3 Companion to Falstaff in four Shakespeare plays (8)
9 Welsh ——-, baked dish involving cheese, etc, on toast (7)
10 Japanese samurai warrior without a master (5)
11 Medieval author and poet, writer of The Divine Comedy (5)
12 Head of a seminary or Jesuit house (6)
14 Peloponnesian War victors (6)
16 Valley Josiah destroyed (6)
19 Usurper of the throne of Israel (6)
21 Name of eight popes between 222 and 1644 (5)
24 Period of rule of a monarch (5)
25 Greek equivalent of Diana; twin sister of Apollo (7)
26 Part of the Requiem Mass based on the 13th century hymn ascribed to Thomas of Celano (4,4)
27 Primary subtractive colour for light with a blue-green hue (4)
Quick down
1 Persian word which in Hebrew became ‘a blessed place’ (8)
2 Composer Copland, named after the first high priest (5)
4 Sacrificial worktops! (6)
5 Greek order of architecture (5)
6 English city, home to the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at one time (1311-1549) considered the world’s tallest building (7)
7 Nomadic tribe of southern Russia which swept westward into the Roman Empire after 370AD (4)
8 Take exception to: article (6)
13 Norwegian explorer, first to reach the South Pole (1911) (8)
15 Epithet for ‘nudist’, after the followers of a 2nd century Christian sect in N Africa (7)
17 Inhabitants of Nunavut and other northerly parts of Canada (6)
18 Brazilian river and state (6)
20 Red Sea peninsula (5)
22 Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements (5)
23 Canaanite city of the Negev: important railway town in modern-day Transylvania (4)
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