Cryptic across
5 Chartism, the ugly plank of Tory policy (11)
7 Admiral gets Stokes to bowl short (6)
8 Tim’s mum is combining Brussels with the place on the Riviera (6)
9 Fancy opera glasses a gal maddeningly discarded for a quick coffee (8)
11 Golfer left out of Portuguese dance (4)
12 Where Napoleon’s seen flitting through parallel bars (4)
13 Apostle is introduced at this point in a contemporary New Testament (8)
14 Hint billiards equipment is damaged? (3-3)
16 Cardinal sin that’s initially forgotten by journalist (6)
17 A celebrant’s various temples are moving places (11)
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1 British are wrong in Galilean town to make capital (8)
2 Barge and bully last of boats to get ahead (4)
3 Heavyweight Lizzy’s Byzantine home is possessed (8)
4 Jerusalem precinct contract one entered into (4)
5 Simplest hat applied to David? (3,8)
6 Scot is among fellows under the hammer in Philippians, for example (11)
10 Midlands town south on river’s alternatively close to Bedford (8)
11 Say goodbye to flipping NHS, top and bottom! (8)
15 Oscars outsiders include British returning with Globes (4)
16 Japanese drama involving one arkwright (4)
Quick across
5 Doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the Church in ecclesiastical matters (11)
7 OT book of a Jewish heroine (one of the Apocryphal books to other creeds) (6)
8 In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus (6)
9 Woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy (8)
11 Sharon —-, actress wife of Roman Polanski murdered by Charles Manson (4)
12 Celine (—-) DiMucci – singers who share a name with several cities of classical antiquity (4)
13 Virtually uninhabited island in the Arctic east of Greenland, annexed by Norway in 1929 (3,5)
14 Name in Ezra thought to equate to Gibeon in Nehemiah (6)
16 First god of the Hindu triad (6)
17 Romantic composer of English-style religious oratorios modelled on Handel (11)
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1 Places of the same name in Scotland, Canada and New Zealand (8)
2 The Beehive or ‘Mormon’ State, the 45th state of the US (4)
3 Resident of NT Cana, for instance (8)
4 Cattedrale Metropolitana Primaziale di Santa Maria Assunta is in which Italian city? (4)
5 Variant name of the movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations (11)
6 Possible site of the Transfiguration, aka Sirion (5,6)
10 Multiple physical damages to a body caused by violence, accident, fracture, etc (8)
11 In Greek myth, the god of death (8)
15 Stage name of the influential lead singer of U2 (4)
16 —- Strait: water that separates Tasmania from the Australian mainland (4)
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