7 Order Pippa Lee to be extremely neat and tidy? (5-3,5)
8 Being not of this world, took control of America to go after uranium (6)
9 Bar in Dublin this place of worship (6)
10 Hector’s red-carded, being game at the start (5,3)
12 Half acronyms spelt backwards hit the target in the main… (4)
13 …Captain, you should know! (4)
15 Aeneas’ boy in the guise of a Roman dog’s clothing for uniform (8)
17 English journalist initially identified biblical site where David once hid (6)
18 Sentimentally sweet, half enthusiastic devotion, and pluck (6)
20 Town, memorably ridiculous for one having to eat one’s hat, sort of? (6,7)
Cryptic down
1 Quick look among paper cups (6)
2 One name to take on the capacity of a whisky bottle is MacGregor, for example (4)
3 Some Anglicans are identified by special piano arranging (13)
4 Ab initio facet – a step on the way to sainthood? (13)
5 Instrument needed to produce hard liquor west of Corn Belt (8)
6 The Spanish join in French alliance of support for an English writer (6)
11 Party animal’s uploaded some serious song lyrics… (8)
14 …he wrote liturgical music Bruch and Elgar embraced (6)
16 Union letters – the last one among overtures to Henry to become a godly king (6)
19 Drugs, a little weight, found in a German river (4)
Quick across
7 Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England (13)
8 Adjective describing a day before Lent; it means ‘grant remission of a sin to’ (6)
9 Artemis’ twin (6)
10 Member of the RC Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, founded in 1624 by St Vincent de Paul (8)
12 ‘This month’ in letter-writing (4)
13 Film or book on a grand scale (4)
15 Finger-pointer on US war recruitment posters (5,3)
17 Chinese ——, as Republic of China (Taiwan) is known by international organizations like the IOC (6)
18 — — McGregor, Scottish outlaw romanticized by Sir Walter Scott (3,3)
20 One who wields power or influence behind the scenes; the term being first applied to Richelieu’s secretary, Père Joseph (8,5)
Quick down
1 Last King of Israel before its fall to the Assyrians (6)
2 Nymph in love with Narcissus (4)
3 Early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge: very old-fashioned or primitive types (13)
4 Group of people living under a religious rule (8,5)
5 Citizen of a biblical East Jordan state: classic Jurassic fossil (8)
6 OT book contributed to by Asaph, among others (6)
11 Prohibition thug (2,6)
14 Clear fluid portion of blood (6)
16 Awaken (6)
19 Laszlo —- (1901-1985), Hungarian inventor of the ball-point pen (4)
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