5 Sewer’s blocked at the end, with bad weather to come (5)
6 Arm against English riposte (5)
8 Rainforest’s struggle to survive here (6)
9 Landing in the Low Countries is a very large nurse (6)
10 Don doesn’t sound like, but is, an English river! (4)
11 Church’s courtyard is costlier to construct (8)
13 Public school cut short, this cat’s regressing somewhere wicked (8)
14 Fashionable Christian name? (4)
15 Eli’s boy, in hurry initially, to go home after dance (6)
17 Ark, perhaps in a Christian’s hands, is something rewarding? (6)
18 After years a restricted junior officer, gets posted to a high-powered conference (5)
19 Measure in Devon and Cornwall the rise in sea level (5)
Cryptic down
1 Little Ford’s no good over a restricted space in Australia, with one bouncing about the bush (8)
2 Wounded in battle, perhaps? Keen to get better (4)
3 Oh bother, it’s the nasty place of Shaul, the king of Edom (8)
4 Solomon-like? Barely! (4)
5 One more duty to perform when producing a book (11)
7 Note damage involving a punishment around about fifty days (11)
11 Kind of number he sings in church perhaps? (8)
12 Sounds upset, look you, one in the Sanhedrin (8)
16 Bush’s line is omitted, being sacred… (4)
17 …for British flower to sing in the street (4)
Quick across
5 Divine attendant (5)
6 ‘That’s final!’ (3,2)
8 Shanghai (6)
9 Jumps with fright (6)
10 ‘Good grief!’ (4)
11 Member of an old Jewish sect prominent in the Gospels (8)
13 Greeks and Romans of classic times (8)
14/17D Ahab’s bane (4,4)
15 Town on the northern border of Judah, home to Samson’s first wife (6)
17 Revolutionary leader (1759-1794) who stormed the Bastille and supported the execution of Louis XVI: finally guillotined by Robespierre (6)
18 Cheesy Mexican snack (5)
19 Set up (actor) from behind the camera or side of the stage (3,2)
Quick down
1 Liturgical prayer, part of the Mass (5,3)
2 Without enthusiasm (4)
3 Ancient peoples of the Middle East, featured in the OT (8)
4 Brainwave (4)
5 Member of a branch of Cathars hounded to extinction by 1300 (after town in the Tarn) (11)
7 GK Chesterton’s clerical sleuth (6,5)
11 Temple to all the gods (8)
12 Christ the Messiah, as named in Matthew from a reference in Isaiah (8)
16 Fine; refined (4)
17 See 14 Across
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