Cryptic across
1 Notice Earth’s in turmoil in Haydn’s piece (3,8)
8 Enthusiastic type, before dull American put off half the continent (7)
9 He predicted in book the key to the end of Nineveh (5)
11Walton’s piece for counter-tenor (4)
12 Paul, for one in record time, is later at loss (8)
14 Lords view Paris article as going back on an earlier good word from there (6)
16 Writer’s Italian torrent Ms Blanchett gets to grips with (6)
18 Mariner, one slipping into hush-hush place in the OT (8)
19 Liquorice-flavoured drink makes Ms Joplin light of head (4)
22 Agency personnel have graph looking into Nazi operatives (5)
23 One finds something that smells bad in Africa, partly in relation to Eli (7)
24 Bin a bad bean stew made for Solomon’s official going by the Hebrew (3-8)
Cryptic down
2 Love to see one in a suit? (5)
3 Characters from both sides of Carmarthen have a place in Normandy (4)
4 Sixth sense needed to come out through an awful pea-souper to see Jupiter’s moon (6)
5 One’s in Carthage today, but restricted over a divorce, sort of (8)
6 Welcome part of the Bible which rises above drama (7)
7 Ancient as a nomadic tribe of people in the OT (10)
10 Nice sea and beach lost acres for years, used for developing an industrial area (10)
13 Ed bathes spasmodically in a restorative pool (8)
15 Judaean princess’ Swiss capital one’s about to invest (7)
17 Umbrian city on a Tiber tributary is like the upper Thames when overflowing (6)
20 Excellent bread found up here in the Nile valley (5)
21 Muslim one imprisoned Persian leader contracted (4)
Quick across
1 Descendants of Canaanites, great traders of the Mediterranean in ancient times (11)
8 Watch: large lizard (7)
9 Servant of Mary, mother of John Mark (5)
11 Spoils: drag (4)
12 Church feast day, the Greek for ‘manifestation’ (8)
14 Take on: bodily contact in some sports (6)
16 Picks out (6)
18 To a very great degree (2,6)
19 Action some bowlers use on a cricket ball (4)
22 David’s brother, Jesse’s eldest son (5)
23 Name shared by the grandson and great-grandson of Herod the Great (7)
24 Doctrine of a third century antipope, or his party or sect, who favoured severity against the lapsed (11)
Quick down
2 Member of a religious group with more than a billion adherents (5)
3 —- James, female R&B legend of the 1950s and 60s (4)
4 Burst in using force (6)
5 Relaxing; at complete rest (2,6)
6 White-supremacist, latter-day fascist (3-4)
7 Sea goddess, wife of Poseidon and mother of Triton (10)
10 Ethiopian, of old (10)
13 Moorish palace of Granada, Spain (8)
15 Monte ——-, Italian monastery founded by St Benedict; focus of a bloody WWII battle (1944) (7)
17 Elisha’s servant, punished for seeking reward from Naaman (6)
20 Samuel —–, 17th century English diarist (5)
21 Modern-day country comprising Media, Parthia and other biblical nations (4)
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