1 Easy, after years being neglected relative to Canaan (4)
3 Use Salop administration for support (8)
9 Samaritan who drove Nehemiah up the wall? (9)
10 Fix a vessel (3)
11 Mourn the beheading of a bird (5)
13 Iona’s chap takes bloke’s name following a bash (7)
14 Some Leics ascetics, perhaps? (13)
16 Administer oath seeing northern valley enter wickedness (5,2)
18 Italian’s amorous when he hasn’t got a twitch (5)
20 Fall behind one in a boat, peeling off (3)
21 Writing of a more spiritual kind in screenplay one finds east of the old city (9)
23 List more than half a week’s mornings in Glasgow (4-4)
24 ‘God zone’ is marginalized by Americans (4)
Cryptic down
1 Indian division English players lead (5)
2 Lighter fuel? (3)
4 Is their war cry, ‘Quake, O my rival, Satan!’? (9,4)
5 Do better round Utah with con (5)
6 Short of senior element in… (9)
7 …footage of Hall-of-Famers? (7)
8 Cloak of animal hair officer in retreat wears (6)
12 Tennis player, one hears, is one of the gang (9)
14 Amount of increase offered is moderate (4,3)
15 Another phrase for ‘angel’ (6)
17 Erected reportedly, and dismantled (5)
19 Christmases, as they used to be, with awful sloe gin soldier tipped away (5)
22 Native American Viking king is able to snub (3)
Quick across
1 Greek philosopher who founded the Stoic school (4)
3 Polish version of the Baltic port anglicised as ‘Stettin’ (8)
9 Mixture of herbal leaves: general miscellany (9)
10 Born (as) (3)
11 In the act of broadcasting (2,3)
13 Train for plants (7)
14 Those within the C of E in a tradition emphasising ritual,
authority, sacraments and continuity with the RC Church (4,9)
16 Begin again (7)
18 Law-giver to the Jewish people (5)
20 Floral wreath of the Pacific (3)
21 Priest of Nob, killed by Saul for helping David (9)
23 Scottish islands ruled by Norsemen until 1472 (8)
24 Longest division of geological time (4)
Quick down
1 Fourth and least-famous of the Marx Brothers (5)
2 World Wide Web (3)
4 Follower of Zoroaster in the Avestan (13)
5 Unfinished Mozart opera (1779-80) with a plot similar to the Abduction from the Seraglio (1781-82) (5)
6 Feast day, 2 February, also Groundhog Day in USA (9)
7 Carl ——- (1865-1931), Danish composer of six symphonies and the opera Saul and David (7)
8 Sailor saint (not formally canonised) who maybe captained the ship bearing King Baldwin I of Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1102 (6)
12 Converter of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity from 597 (9)
14 Presages: those who announce important news (7)
15 Slight convexity, as in the surface of a road (6)
17 Take advantage; benefit (5)
19 Amorite king who unsuccessfully attempted to block 18 and his people’s route into Canaan (5)
22 Computer file suffix: Devon river (3)
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