Cryptic across
7 Susanna’s wise judge of a book? (6)
8 Following for West Bromwich in Britain of old (6)
9 One to follow, wise men say of A-lister (4)
10 Woman bugs early Christian sect (8)
11 King of Jerusalem’s undisguised success (7)
12 Draw a holy place in the sand (5)
15 Promote Tottenham’s home anthem (5)
17 Two containers I looked into are for a Roman site (7)
20 One’s prayers in Syria go to airmen in trouble (8)
22 Council’s beginnings at Arles get Dijon end-piece (4)
23 13 city where Saul is converted to become a legendary saint (6)
24 Name temperance movement fellow, one cured by Elisha (6)
Cryptic down
1 A tango is performed in the capital (8)
2 Abbot of Rievaulx is, with pain, getting flushed (6)
3 I am like a version of Hezekiah’s steward (7)
4 Pitch to get master in for David’s daughter (5)
5 It follows aristocracy to compel and serve? (6)
6 Spare Thomas being one… (4)
13 …like Abraham, seeing almost every cleric after church (8)
14 Article written about bird seen above Italian city (7)
16 Book for the going… (6)
18 …and the coming – one on the road, in a roundabout way, has described (6)
19 Jacob’s girl is in a Blu-Ray maybe that’s about to be reviewed (5)
21 Flower that’s initially all the rage (4)
Quick across
7 Hypnotic state (6)
8 Off the ground: antenna (6)
9 The —-: home of Surrey CCC (4)
10 Old Testament book (1) (8)
11 Grid-like barrier: unpleasantly harsh in sound (7)
12 Done in (5)
15 Escort (5)
17 Lithe; nimble (7)
20 Title or form of address to members of the clergy (8)
22 All’s opposite? (4)
23 Government, especially an authoritarian one (6)
24 Diverted (6)
Quick down
1 Old Testament book (2) (8)
2 Ornament worn around the part of the leg: short sock (6) 3 Asian capital (7)
4 Dawdle (5)
5 In an earliest or original stage or state (6)
6 Pieces of information (4)
13 Christ or the Messiah, as named in Matthew from a reference in Isaiah (8)
14 So what? (3,4)
16 Facial feature, the palpebra (6)
18 Parody (6)
19 ‘—– Without a Cause’… (5)
21 …and ‘East of —-’: 1955 feature films starring James Dean (4)
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