5 Female fringe the French held in a venerated place (9)
8 Initial ‘R’ is removed, revealing what a pugilist needs (4)
9 Twenty-four hours following climate inversion, old Bob sees the end of the world (8)
10 Special kind of law for the poet (7)
12 Female gardener’s declared interest in vacant Jardin situation for Japheth’s lad (5)
14 Part of old Romania needs in-house accountant support to turn everything around (5)
15 Scandinavian sound is indecently sounder! (7)
17 Is Ham a main reason for David’s headquarters being here? (8)
18 Characters in the end out of Pisa, after Milan, go for the Florentine flower (4)
19 Thoughtful person, putting time into an old Italian (9)
Cryptic down
1 Getting offensive about a cross may be the basis of a sermon (4)
2 Journalist found in Chard – strange place in Somerset (7)
3 County has green light for knocking over E5 squats (5)
4 Result of banging heads together? Hollywood’s the place to do this (3,5)
6 Where to say hello to poor lama, getting overly articulate (9)
7 Applying glossy coat after German’s – OK – criticizing (9)
11 To decorate place, west of Ireland, requires a boat of some kind (8)
13 Russian town hall’s tenuous link involving an 80s band (7)
16 Quiet place in 17 from where spies are sent into Canaan (5)
18 Lady singer who falls for a king (4)
Quick across
5 Sacred text in Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions (9)
8 King of Edom, son of Beor (4)
9 Base point for calculating contour lines (3-5)
10 Having a cheerful, lively and self-confident air (7)
12 Trailblazing French film studio, famous in the UK for its newsreel (5)
14 Location of the Israelites’ victory over the army of Og (5)
15 Fierce wind which blows south through the Rhone Valley in France (7)
17 Along with Beelzebub and Lucifer, one of the Evil Trinity (8)
18 —-’s Lament, aria from a 17th century opera by Henry Purcell (4)
19 Minor prophet and book of the OT (9)
Quick down
1 Capital of Samoa (4)
2 Israeli parliament (7)
3 Biblical patriarch (5)
4 Sir William ——–, 17th century poet, playwright and Civil War soldier (8)
6 Religious beliefs and practices of Nonconformist denominations characterized by concern with social welfare and public morals (9)
7 Fishing town on the north shore of Lake Galilee, home to at least three disciples (9)
11 Seven daughters of the Titan, Atlas, and their formation in the heavens (8)
13 Taking a tenth in taxes (originally by the church); decimating (archaic) (7)
16 Germanic barbarians who, under Alaric, sacked Rome in 410 AD (5)
18 Title given to the head of the Sacred College (4)
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