3 Simplest hat applied to David? (3,8)
7 Superior sort of slab Bessemer’s produced in… (6)
8 …Sheffield, for instance, and, most famously, a Manchester outfit (6)
9 Rights Asian country incorporated in a letter (6)
10 A small boy in the west names a Siberian flower (4)
11 Donations are key to old railway line (4)
13 Dynasty’s dubious woman’s acceptable among society heads (6)
17 Dive’s ultimately tip-top with hole in living room removed (6)
18 Resort to seeing interminable Michael Caine movie after this morning (6)
19 Sell bracing resort by ringing endlessly its praises? (7,4)
Cryptic down
1 Hymn’s routine: need to replace one note added (2,4)
2 Eat around six – that’s splendid (6)
3 A celebrant’s various temples are moving places (11)
4 Desperately seeking girl Gran’s missing most, one involved with Daniel (5)
5 Praise Archbishop of Canterbury, having Catholic leanings (4)
6 Muslims maybe unfairly ‘hateful’, if hit, one worked out (3,8)
12 Is able to turn over in low offshore shelter (6)
14 Feeble empty talking about the guitar sound (5)
15 Esau’s grandson, a boy king (6)
16 Live cuts made by Strauss? (4)
Quick across
3 Descendants of Canaanites, great traders of the Mediterranean (11)
7 Swiss-Italian resort and lake (6)
8 Greatest of all the gods of ancient Egypt (6)
9 Apostle hailing from Bethsaida in Galilee (6)
10 Cried bitterly (4)
11 Formerly the chief magistrate in the republic of Venice (4)
13 Old Malta in the KJV (6)
17 Underground pool; once a major water source for Jerusalem (6)
18 Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar (6)
19 In Revelation, names for those who oppose the rule of Christ (3,3,5)
Quick down
1 Kenyan’s neighbour (6)
2 Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth (6)
3 Festive dessert (4,7)
4 Husband of Elimelech (5)
5 Exult: large bird of the Corvus genus (4)
6 Canonizing, commonly called… (5-6)
12 …and one subjected to it? (6)
14 Father of Bathsheba (5)
15 Bluish colour of the rainbow (6)
16 Augury; harbinger (4)
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