7 Marquee batsman is in here, probably for lunch? (8)
8 Writing’s on the wall for captain in retreat (4)
9 Little time to get to grips with a nag (4)
10 Savoy: place where cold meat, with fruit roulade starter, is outstanding (8)
11 Doctor, third in class, overcomes bloomer to become a saint (7)
12 Italian islands one reached following surprising-sounding medieval lead (5)
15 Did Eisenhower doff cap to our island spirit? (5)
17 Bird’s tail gets injured entering avian shelter (4,3)
20 Fate of the French revolutionary, someone that’s relatively diminished (8)
22 Note what follows belongs to the king of Mercia (4)
23 City’s chicken, getting stuffed (4)
24 Awful slur removed, colour scheme is restored to religious art (4,4)
Cryptic down
1 Introduction from Asia of masala mixture (6)
2 Artist on heroin, a kind of lighter superior mate of Moses (8)
3 See over the London area ring that’s into particular type of gambling (7)
4 High priest, a rising artisan, narked some (5)
5 Archaeological find has a Brit, Thomas, informally leading (4)
6 Foursome are bellicose offensive to Caroline, perhaps, mostly (6)
13 Jot down barbarian find with a ‘skull’ here (8)
14 Dismiss firms being primarily Russian (7)
16 It’s what highlights a specific Mediterranean type (6)
18 Fashionable to exclude the Italian dynasty in act of extreme dishonour (6)
19 Zilpah’s son in the role of Leander’s lost love? (5)
21 Pulled into a Sussex resort (4)
Quick across
7 Ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel (8)
8 From, or to, a great distance (4)
9 Small songbird: (formerly) a Royal Navy female (4)
10 Influential Pharisee and tutor of Saul of Tarsus (8)
11 Town in Kansas, the original end of the Chisholm Trail, named after a NT region NW of Damascus (7)
12 Conjecture (5)
15 Aggressive money-lending (5)
17 The War of ——-’ Ear (1739-41), Anglo-Spanish sideshow to the War of Austrian Succession (7)
20 Town in Numbers from which Miriam, with a skin disease, is barred for seven days (8)
22 Con; sham (4)
23 20th century surrealist painter (4)
24 Paul’s missionary, initially a Levite from Cyprus (8)
Quick down
1 Capital of Croatia (6)
2 Raymond ——–, crime writer who created private detective Philip Marlowe (8)
3 Ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle (7)
4 18th letter of the Greek alphabet (5)
5 Gloomy, deathly atmosphere (4)
6 The ——, Liverpool club made famous by the Beatles (6)
13 Antepenultimate king of Israel (8)
14 English, earlier, version of Livorno: breed of chicken (7)
16 Doctor-priest or medicine man working with magic (6)
18 Son and/or grandson of Benjamin who shares a name with a later Syrian general (6)
19 ‘—–’ Stiles, toothless England World Cup winner of 1966 (5)
21 Southernmost and smallest of the Great Lakes (4)
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