5 Arabs hate missile hits (11)
8 Place in Gilead’s a goal for leading actor’s comeback (8)
9 Florida has a few of these from Turkey, sheltering (4)
10 Short letter denying Christ’s leadership Paul wrote here (7)
12 Korah’s boy gets to like teacher (5)
14 Great Australian, for instance, is sharp before getting run out (5)
16 Bike around the centre of Bonn – it’ll give you a whirl (7)
19 Mineral Catholics got rid of, seeing the state of the Jews (4)
20 Hurry to park on the water in the Devon countryside (8)
22 Old Mediterranean traders cash in on pie gaffe (11)
Cryptic down
1 Saul’s servant from 19’s not over a vacuous barista (4)
2 The car club’s involved in the old country (6)
3 Cricketer a Midland town say is theirs (6)
4 Uninhabited areas Middle Easterner passes to another (8)
6 Transport range’s introduction chap’s foretold (6)
7 One followed Mary in a part of London to cut out the maze (4)
11 Man, a Greek character in a Macedonian town (8)
13 Welsh fluency, Mr Icelander, is just part of it (6)
15 Valley Josiah destroyed: name and number’s taken by chap (6)
17 1 August, day Samuel and Malachi both stood up (6)
18 God of love’s eating after dispatching a cocktail of gin (4)
21 Great river properties have an absence of banks (4)
Quick across
5 One who practises or believes in divine wisdom and spiritual ecstasy; of a society formed in 1875 (11)
8 Father of one of the Twelve Tribes (8)
9 Spoils (4)
10 French dramatist known for comic plays such as Tartuffe (1864) (7)
12 Informal name for the Southern states of the USA (5)
14 Former Egyptian Canaanite town, on the road from Joppa to Jerusalem (5)
16 Three winged sister monsters who had live snakes for hair (7)
19 Chinese dynasty renowned for its porcelain, tableware, etc (4)
20 ——– Sans, typeface copyrighted by Transport for London and used on all 22 signage (8)
22 Alternative; avant-garde (11)
Quick down
1 —- Redding, 1941-1967, soul singer (4)
2 Elisha’s servant, punished for seeking reward from Naaman (6)
3 Father of the ‘scoundrel’ Sheba who rebelled against David (6)
4 Pertaining to a pre-Roman culture in central Italy (8)
6 It covers most of Mauritania, Libya and traverses the borders of other north African countries (6)
7 Deep-fried round pieces of Indian bread (4)
11 NT slave who ran away (8)
13 Job’s Naamathite friend (6)
15 Desert place where David sought refuge from Saul (6)
17 Where Absalom fled after he killed Amnon (6)
18 Slightly open (4)
21 Chances; advantage (4)
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