Cryptic across
7 Camouflaged Crusader chap’s hard-wearing uniforms on Sundays? (6,7)
8 Where Paul landed against the tide, going west, is the Polish heartland (8)
9 Spot the saint (4)
10 Look out, Hutton’s in divine form (6)
11 Virtually defile row that starts somewhere in Liverpool (6)
12 Big deal for one party (3)
13 Certain trouble when I dropped Greek, for example (6)
16 Total pain initially, this cement stuff (6)
19 Track drugs through a servant of Saul (4)
20 Old Archbishop of Canterbury’s here to do work (8)
21 Sea’s in the middle; land’s to the north-east (13)
Cryptic down
1 Due, so they say, to become a benefactor of the early church (6)
2 Frozen in French I initially embraced very quietly (6)
3 Old Iraqi chopped tree supporting church, one close to Jordan (8)
4 Old Bill and old Bob in orders (4)
5 Alligator takes guy south of island (6)
6 Little albatross is caught in rope trellis (6)
11 Shakespearean bloke Venice magistrate’s imprisoned (bravo!) unknown to bishop’s superior (8)
14 Island top in resort hotels; over dozen ‘exceptional’ suggested (6)
15 Turning down a title, contemptible chap identifies a large tributary in Asia (6)
17 Friend of Timothy writes about unprincipled banks… (6)
18 …12 crashing – sound, they reported, immediately after high point (6)
20 Titter listening to the old you (4)
Quick across
7 The ————-, Ovid’s magnum 4, first translated into English by Caxton in 1480 (13)
8 Last 6 king, whose crown passed to Cyrus of Persia (8)
9 Nile wading bird (4)
10 Bogged down (2,1,3)
11 City whose council Paul addressed (c 50AD) (6)
12 Son of Noah whose tribe spread into north Africa (3)
13 Port between Rhodes and Tyre used by Paul on his journey to Jerusalem (6)
16 Head of a seminary or Jesuit house (6)
19 —- d’amore, wind instrument used chiefly in the performance of baroque music (4)
20 Ballet by Delibes (1870) (8)
21 Royal chateau south-east of Paris whose chapel was consecrated by Thomas à Becket in 1169 (13)
Quick down
1 Jim —— (1936-1990), creator of the Muppets and Kermit the Frog’s original voice (6)
2 Ural-Altaic people and language predominating in Hungary (6)
3 Hill near Jerusalem, in the Aramaic, where Jesus was crucified (8)
4 Specific piece within the oeuvre of a musician’s work (4)
5 Opposer of Nehemiah’s attempt to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls (6)
6 Of an OT kingdom: word in today’s English meaning ‘of the middle’ or ‘mid-point’ (6)
11 King of Shinar who fought Abraham (8)
14 Old (poetic) name for Britain (6)
15 Zoroastrian sacred writings (6)
17 (Of a mixed-race) descendant of European settlers in Central America and the Caribbean (6)
18 One from the city of Columbus, for example (6)
20 Close-fitting cap worn under a veil by nuns (4)
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