Cryptic across
7 After dissolute heir apparent’s wild spree, gets kicked out of Iranian section (8)
8 Bob in the old days with a mournful song to bring down the curtain? (4)
9 Runs into boss after Jersey, perhaps he’s a Pompey supporter… (6)
10 …his little county club’s first and foremost creating footy songs (6)
11 Banquo’s relative, a woman impaled by English spear (7)
13 Sister of 18 hid in a hotel, literally! (5)
15 Official return meeting of the Queen and First Lady (5)
17 Falcon’s getting cross? (7)
20 Before church make row for an hour around 9 am (6)
21 Certain protection for a line dancer in the NT (6)
23 English put inside loo where William the Conqueror once lived (4)
24 Potatoes, for instance, of which proctor somehow gets to eat none (4,4)
Cryptic down
1 Book about one Viking’s end in Cornwall (6)
2 Where Animal Farm was penned, say? (4)
3 Lower California holiday island (7)
4 Individual returned to church to discover an old chap in Genesis (5)
5 Traitor’s rising is subdued by Roman Exeter (8)
6 Chant to get free from snare quietly (6)
12 Region of France – une grave movement? (8)
14 Instrument of gratuity a vessel adopted (7)
16 One who predicted priest’s unfinished pilgrimage up north (6)
18 He bears his cross, swallowing pride in the end, this Patriarch (6)
19 One for the booze – needs support, Judith’s dad (5)
22 Catch opening batsman off a defensive stroke (4)
Quick across
7 Citizen of a Roman province featured in the NT (8)
8 Biblical prophet and Old Testament book (4)
9 Alternative name of Jonathan, a brother of Judas Maccabaeus (6)
10 Embodiment; incarnation (6)
11 Iran’s third city, twice Persia’s former capital (7)
13 —– Island, US state, capital Providence (5)
15 Describing French-speaking people of Louisiana (5)
17 ——- und Isolde, opera by Richard Wagner (1865) (7)
20 Fifth century BC Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (6)
21 In Greek myth, a female follower of Bacchus; a frenzied woman (6)
23 US Ivy League university established in 1701 (4)
24 Priest in Jerusalem under Nehemiah (8)
Quick down
1 Wrist joint (6)
2 Where the Ark was taken after being stolen by the Philistines (4)
3 Clan leader with Zerubbabel (7)
4 Jewish High Priest, father-in-law of 5… (5)
5 …another High Priest, and persecutor of the first Christians (8)
6 Jean-Luc ——, film director, a pioneer of the French New Wave cinema of the 1960s (6)
12 Norwegian explorer, first to reach the South Pole (1911) (8)
14 European war, 1853-56 (7)
16 Prophet who tore his robe into twelve pieces to show how Solomon’s kingdom would be divided (6)
18 OT name for the Jordan Rift Valley between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea (6)
19 Of a sect instigated by a presbyter of Alexandria’s early church, its doctrine based on God being superior to Jesus Christ (5)
22 Greek nymph in love with Narcissus (4)
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