7 Roman flower, one like Herod developed here (8)
8 Next to the Land of Nod, it’s Utopia (4)
9 Israel has, it follows, a sound backing with university’s input (6)
10 Kidnap American student somewhere on the West Bank (6)
11 Fur coat society needs to be wrapped up here (5)
12 Shakespearean tragedy’s welcome after earlier books (7)
15 David’s champion to wrap it up in knocking over a bail (7)
17 Ah, what’s missing defines the first patriarch from one in later spell (5)
19 Woman Paul greeted leaving eastern part of Iran for south (6)
21 Opera singer’s fatter fellow part (6)
22 Hokkaido people, originally Asian islanders, now united (4)
23 Tick ‘relief’ that beef’s cleaner! (8)
Cryptic down
1 Ken’s somehow not businesslike, organized, to be a composer… (8)
2 …with just two notes, poor soul, he’s a creator of airs (6)
3 Desert place’s hard to find following a kind of code (4)
4 Joseph’s wife he, Satan, corrupted (7)
5 Most of UK in survey, with Left ahead wanting an extra run (3,3)
6 In Paris I almost get to grips with an ancient road rager (4)
13 Boy after holiday changed for the better (8)
14 Special forces quickly reach Siegfried Line, he wrote (and more!) (7)
16 One sort of stays in the Pyrenees, folks (6)
18 Jeremiah’s secretary, one who wrote sometimes lyrically about Rugby (6)
20 Oasis in Exodus is not too far, going south (4)
21 Work note about what an excessive drinker does (4)
Quick across
7 Welsh former coal-mining town (8)
8 Wild goat (4)
9 Element discovered by the Curies in 1898 (6)
10 Sturdy; healthy (6)
11 Fibrous plant used for rope (5)
12 Wine valley of South Australia (7)
15 Inland-port and Uganda’s former capital on Lake Victoria (7)
17 Garlicky mayonnaise (5)
19 Under the old rules of golf, where one ball’s path to the hole is barred by another (6)
21 Rich shellfish (often lobster) stew (6)
22 Bearing (4)
23 Of an adherent of several Muslim sects; concerning a Muslim mystic (8)
Quick down
1 Sacrifice or offering (8)
2 Three-horsed Russian vehicle (6)
3 L Frank —-, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) (4)
4 Example of inadmissible evidence in court (7)
5 Basque city, home to a Guggenheim Museum (6)
6 Wine sediment (4)
13 Member of the dynasty that ruled Syria from 312 to 65 BC (8)
14 Au courant (7)
16 Ill will (6)
18 Ask for firmly (6)
20 Catch: mouth (slang) (4)
21 One of a regiment (eg, the East Kent) named after their coloured uniform facings (4)
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