5 Company tipple with fellow in Scotland (9)
8 Revelation – church director’s little drunk during service (6)
9 Midpoint of an OT empire? (6)
10 First chap to imbibe rough-sounding port, they say, in 16’s cave (7)
11 Gigantic vehicle gets an award (5)
14 Handy when fathoming the mouth of a great river sweeping around (2,3)
15 Describing a mystical cult, one obtains police department’s backing (7)
17 11 star at home has nothing left – a beastly thing (6)
19 OT book’s contents of wickedest heresy (6)
20 Monstrous type of patriarch American made, except at the end (9)
Cryptic down
1 Poor Saul dead, he failed to make his son a high flier (8)
2 Football star’s gasp of surprise at oratorio… (7)
3 …and bellicose British (privately) at rock opera? (5)
4 Declared with Roman gods in the ascendant, raising the victory sign (4)
6 Long drink? No, must knock it back as fast as one can (4,2,3)
7 Numbers ascetics having zest, Arian-style (9)
12 With ‘Quick dram?’, he announced a new style of dean (8)
13 Placed to return using built-in fast facilities (7)
16 Drama queen’s put up to support the lead in Dallas as the dynast (5)
18 Place Britain had in Yemen leading Arabian desert expert dismissed (4)
Quick across
5 Minor prophet and book of the OT [1] (9)
8 Name sometimes applied to food from a female chicken (3,3)
9 Poise (6)
10 Home of Liverpool FC (7)
11 Greek god of the dead (5)
14 Third Great Plague of Egypt in some Bibles (5)
15 USAF base near Washington, renamed in 2009 Joint Base ——- (7)
17 Greek goddess of wisdom (6)
19 London striker (but not for a little while?) (3,3)
20 French Calvinists of the 16th or 17th centuries (9)
Quick down
1 Italian monk who founded a major religious order about 540 (8)
2 Marc ——-, Russian-born French artist (1887-1985) (7)
3 Soldier in the Australian and New Zealand army corps during World War I (5)
4 Sisera’s tent-peg assassin (4)
6 Member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life (9)
7 Period in the Western Church each quarter when fast days occur (5,4)
12 Unjustifyingly claim one’s rights (8)
13 Trapped (2,1,4)
16 Minor prophet and book of the OT [2] (5)
18 Freer of the Israelites after the defeat of the Moabites (4)
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