Cryptic across
3 Two boys read quietly in school a letter from Paul (11)
7 Fool little boy to come to a valley near Jerusalem (6)
8 It’s him, making a false stroke (6)
9 Figure it’s a small number to bluff (4)
11 Second to Stornoway, a most wee city (5)
13 A new seat in the Lords, for one (5)
14 Hit back at old saint (4)
16 African nation, one turning back a record number (6)
17 Board member has policeman ejected from seminary position (6)
19 Magistrate gets to write memoirs after it’s over (11)
Cryptic down
1 Drink report: it moves one to the grave (4)
2 Where a sea race settled; landing here, according to the Bible… (8)
3 …low-brow types with an alarming pithiness and essence of the Italian (11)
4 Island off North America facing one off Scotland (4)
5 Wodehouse hero, an afterthought and legend, they say (6)
6 Hubbard’s belief is that dubious gynaecologists expel a kind of gas (11)
10 Musical event’s in place in Brazil; ring artist to go over (8)
12 Tom’s English; goddess is Greek (6)
15 Canaanite city of the Negev Caradoc captured (4)
18 Barbecue the fish? (4)
Quick across
3 Doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the Church in ecclesiastical matters (11)
7 Son of Eusebius, Doctor of the Church and Bible translator (6)
8 Marcel —— (1871–1922), French novelist, essayist and critic (6)
9 Daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and the mother of Apollo and Artemis (4)
11 Fairy, a character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (5)
13 —– Miles, English actress, nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in Ryan’s Daughter (1971) (5)
14 Third son of Jacob and Leah (4)
16 Judge of the Hebrews who delivered Israel from the Midianites (6)
17 —— Ironside, one of three English kings to reign during 1016 (6)
19 Richard Hannay novel (1916) from John Buchan, sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps (11)
Quick down
1 Marcus Porcius —- (234-149 BC), Roman statesman, orator and writer (4)
2 Relating to, or designating, an order observing the strict rule of St Francis (8)
3 Eternal; timeless (11)
4 1960s Ulster R&B band featuring Van Morrison (4)
5 Dominant animals or humans in a group (6)
6 Unsuitable, unhappy or unworkable union or marriage (11)
10 Ivan ——– (1818-1883), writer of Russian life as in Fathers and Sons (8)
12 Loire chateau of the Angevins/Plantagenets: rare example of a good Loire red wine (6)
15 Any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit (4)
18 Major city of Lorraine, ex-capital of Frankish Austrasia (4)
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