5 Hair we first cut to become monks (11)
7 Shandy he invented when on serious drugs (6)
8 To bug Military Intelligence is to return to the origin of
republicanism by one in the Six counties (6)
9 Woman Paul knew (not to live with), in USA’s nothing but an Arizonan wonder! (7)
10 Ham loses his head: in a real state back in the day (5)
13 Able to order totally retro theme (5)
14 What some Protestants believe in, but not aver unduly, is the slaughtering of vampire bats (7)
16 Caramel Italiano uses an old Maltese name (6)
18 Land in the Balkans at main retaining bridge, only the western half is blown up (6)
19 Odd salutations one gets from a chap making a date for Easter (2,9)
Cryptic down
1 Prime Minister of the French’s a Middle Easterner (8)
2 Rocking Vincent’s little girl after reading a book (7)
3 Naomi’s in-law, alternatively father and husband (5)
4 Philosopher’s utter pretentiousness (4)
5 See Jehovah’s Witnesses’s vehicles from observation posts (11)
6 Habits young Jack needs to grow out of? (6,5)
11 Extract note written upside down in an arithmetic formula about the spirit of Persia (8)
12 Use up energy reaching Jerusalem for Easter (7)
15 Starts to play at god and no one disbelieves (5)
17 Ruler’s terribly naive and short? (4)
Quick across
5 ‘…———–’, the second part of Christ’s question: see 11 Dn (11)
7 Relating to or written in
‘majuscule’ letters (which
resemble rounded modern capitals): of an inch or an ounce (6)
8 Abominate (6)
9 Form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers (7)
10 Covered single-seated carrying chair, after a town in N France (5)
13 Solace: hail (5)
14 In a detached way (7)
16 Non-essential data, minutiae (6)
18 Bring into existence (6)
19 Sobriquet for the Bible, especially the KJV (4,2,5)
Quick down
1 Give up power, or duties and obligations (8)
2 Someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical
service (7)
3 Bikini, for example? (5)
4 Decisive battle of the Second Punic War, 202 BC (4)
5 King of Assyria who
invaded Judea twice, defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh (11)
6 Descendants of the son of Abraham and Hagar to whom Joseph was sold into slavery (11)
11 —- —- lama…’: the first part of Christ’s question to
God while on the cross
(variant spelling): see also 5 Ac (4,4)
12 Psychological trick, as in false medication (7)
15 Sharp blade (5)
17 Six-stringed instrument of old, similar to the double bass (4)
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