Cryptic across
5 They are placed opposite, against the work of Schubert in the poet school (9)
8 Point at this moment to evidence winter is here (4)
9 Hero that meanders through the early part of the Bible (3,5)
10 Turn the heat up on the little fish being sent to prison first? (4-3)
12 Frustration surrounding a Moabite king (5)
14 See highlights of final tonight somewhere near Basingstoke (5)
15 Student’s capacity to break into ‘Flower of Scotland’ creates havoc (7)
17 Want, after gnu is injured, one to get whip round (8)
18 Meagre dwelling place, acceptable to one in Africa (4)
19 Organize a sculptor to create Achilles’ dead friend (9)
Cryptic down
1 Force a return for sickly champ (4)
2 Folks from Tyrone take on Mull (7)
3 Hosea’s wife, about to have cat severely docked, gets upset (5)
4 Chronicles chief priest with a woman after only half the witnesses appear (8)
6 Military alliance’s American front line is detailed to capture a Turk in the interior… (9)
7 …the Red Beret regiment, having no wings, accordingly get the French to enter into the spirit (9)
11 Equipment needed urgently on the street or a tiger gets loose? (4,4)
13 He found a way through the fire to shed hearing dogs, the setter first (7)
16 Stars like Lugosi lose heart with support at a low point (5)
18 Big heave needed to change course abruptly (4)
Quick across
5 System of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul (9)
8 Rhythm (4)
9 Traditional founder of the Cypriot Church (8)
10 One moved out of a place of danger (7)
12 Mendicant Muslim or Hindu regarded as a holy man (5)
14 Make up (for) (5)
15 Rugby (Union) team (7)
17 The West (8)
18 Affectionate (4)
19 Lamech’s son by Zilpah (9)
Quick down
1 Sharpen, stimulate (4)
2 Northampton Town footballer or fan (7)
3 Elapid snake of tropical
regions: US attack helicopter (5)
4 Game bird (8)
6 Romantic, stagey name for old Switzerland: font (9)
7 Palestinian people living north of, and abutting, an eponymous lake (9)
11 Advance (8)
13 Read the —- —: warn (someone) about performance, behaviour, etc (4,3)
16 Sired, biblically (5)
18 Baking sheet: thwart (4)
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