1 Taps out line to contain sound of impact (5)
4 Cockney missus has trouble getting away from controversy (6)
10 Pope instigating laws is not usually sanctioned (5)
11 Original American Dream in tatters? (7)
12 Adage, second taken from this book (7)
13 Boy of Jacob is like the girl (5)
14 Outlet where many make real packet, surprisingly (11)
19 Shearer cuddles lamb in the end – he’s a saint (5)
21 24, overly pious, beginning to grate – about 180! (7)
23 New republicans take lead towards peace… (7)
24 …English players take lead in Indian race (5)
25 Girl hugging little Adrian’s a brick (6)
26 Bottomless pit of a type of blood vessel, an unknown quantity, stored (5)
Cryptic down
2 Woman, known to box, gets to hammer another (7)
3 Poles head east following road to French department (5)
5 Digital attachment to email exchange of letters? (7)
6 European girl’s at the centre of fashion (5)
7 Stay with Yorkshire river and finish on the Ouse? (6)
8 First Hebrew character to put beer and pub on the map (5)
9 In a street band, this heretic’s one who supports Sunday’s religious traditions (11)
15 Queen in the Bible’s lower than king, with a heartless knave at the bottom (7)
16 Dives sort of cove picked out from various sources (7)
17 Solo, going up and down, making dam for Sam (6)
18 Father Trevor’s brief bishop involvement (2,3)
20 Gunners in the ascendant, support includes Scottish island (5)
22 Poke around firm in Israel
Quick across
1 Fell off, subsided (5)
4 Not smooth; lacking ease of manner (6)
10 ‘The —–’, nickname given the orginally-named London Bridge Tower (5)
11 S America river emptying into the Caribbean (7)
12 Town Paul went through on his way to Pamphylia (7)
13 One of Disney’s Seven Dwarfs (5)
14 Priest and king of Salem whom Abraham revered (11)
19 Clean-living: message in a story (5)
21 One of the Seven Apostles appointed in Acts (7)
23 Service recited without music or ceremony (3,4)
24 Mountain where Barak gathered his army: small Indian drum (5)
25 Drizzles: displays of flowers (6)
26 More eccentric (5)
Quick down
2 In golf, former name for a 2 wood, named after a metal plate attached to the club (7)
3 Broke off; annulled (5)
5 Daughter of King Minos of Crete (7)
6 Chew noisily (5)
7 Person’s name from which is derived the name of a place, book, play, etc (6)
8 Psalm setter (5)
9 Very early Protestant movement, founded in 1467 as the Bohemian Brethren (11)
15 Golgotha (7)
16 Raise to the aristocracy: dignify (7)
17 Entrails, especially of deer (6)
18 County town of Cornwall (5)
20 Crew member (5)
22 Acknowledged (5)
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