1 Stream Blondie’s Number One initially to perform on the street (4)
3 Babylon’s man in Judah a hag lied about (8)
9 Unwind in Spain to The Return of the King – it’s enthralling (5)
10 Get forward after border into attack (5,2)
11 Carriages which allow a member to cross convex surfaces (7)
12 Numbers desert Irish islands following pressure (5)
13 One hard on idiot becomes a saint (5)
15 Freight vehicle with oomph (5)
20 Revolutionary French valley town (5)
22 Glen massacre, one to silence the Sassenach (7)
24 Dither after name is extracted from dubious human DNA (2,3,2)
25 Paul steered away from this port seeing fool is, well, falling over (5)
26 The don is trouble; within there’s a serious pleasure seeker (8)
27 One’s not close to leaving Irish county’s ancient port (4)
Cryptic down
1 OT book’s boycott underscored by United Church (6)
2 Battle in Greece for Italian sausages (7)
4 Music paper caught in drugs silence trap (6)
5 Pilate appointee’s one vice is read aloud (7)
6 From piece of polemic Horace creates stuff that’s divine, flowing (5)
7 Jehu’s dad turns up in an abridged OT book (6)
8 Toll unit for bridge? (4)
14 Chevalier’s page is in agony (7)
16 Oppose camp’s holding of one popular Pole (7)
17 Cast off from a Thameside town (6)
18 Peter’s short letter is put into return bag (6)
19 Guy’s in pursuit of truth initially, with Bible holding nothing for a Babylonian girl (6)
21 Single item stored in lead and wood, the ultimate delicacy (5)
23Americans at the front get kind of shot up around a Marianas island (4)
Quick across
1 Philistine city conquered, then lost, by Joshua (4)
3 Caretaker of the Ark of the Covenant before its moving to the Temple (8)
9 Large-eyed arboreal primate (5)
10 Dismay; shake up (7)
11 Lake in an Italian volcano, the entrance to Hell in Latin mythology (7)
12 Takes a turn (away) (5)
13 Small tufts or locks (5)
15 Female Christian, some of whose household had informed Paul of a divide in the Corinthian church (5)
20 Actress Mary of The Maltese Falcon (1941) (5)
22 Aleksandr ——- (1799-1837), author of Eugene Onegin (7)
24 Sihon’s capital (7)
25 Fertilizer made from the droppings of seabirds (5)
26 Queen of Castile who married Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 (8)
27 Mini-whirlpool or maelstrom (4)
Quick down
1 Shrine where Elisha dealt with a pot of ‘poisoned’ stew (6)
2 African river which includes the Victoria Falls (7)
4 Paris stock exchange, now a generic term (6)
5 Tigris city of the OT on the opposite bank to modern Mosul (7)
6 Ancient city of Asia Minor near Lystra, mentioned in Acts (5)
7 Bourg-en- ——, centre of French poultry farming (6)
8 Poetic name for Ireland (4)
14 Short moral story like those of Jesus in the New Testament (7)
16 Californian city on the opposite side of the Bay from San Francisco (7)
17 Queen divorced by Ahasuerus (6)
18 This is —— Tap, Rob Reiner’s cult mock-rock documentary (1984) (6)
19 Saint: at least eight who share the same name (variant spellings), including ‘of Egypt’ and ‘of Kiev’ (6)
21 —– Sanderson, Britain’s Olympic Javelin Champion in 1984 (5)
23 Multi-generational, often heroic, tale (4)
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