5 Some berths spoken for: Palestinian port dwellers only? (10)
7 Historically Britain’s linked, connected with French city in the west (6)
8 Verses she wrote as a very quiet interlude for abridged performance (6)
9 To exist in Rome take directions fore and aft (4)
11 Island pubs in which it’s discourteous to get a round (8)
13 He was a wino, the old pop star, Susie’s heard to recall (8)
14 Eisenhower’s popularly returning, as extract from OT book’s showing where David hid (4)
15 Poles long to discover the object of quidditch (6)
17 Epitaph later officer English imprisoned expressed without restraint (3,3)
19 Temple where a celebrant gets drunk (10)
Cryptic down
1 Nice I get close to a little princess, being a knight (4)
2 Substance of tin and steel’s declared (8)
3 God to a vacuous zombie American (4)
4 Upon which dinner is normally served ‘ready-to-use’? (2,1,5)
5 Book one in class soon rubbished (10)
6 Stews, hot and diverse, for three days before a particular Wednesday (10)
10 Priest, almost prophet, to King Jehoiakim (8)
12 Ordinals layout she featured in As You Like It (8)
16 Pay attention when Herod entered and staff begin to leave (4)
18 Light runs out on international Christian movement (3,1)
Quick across
5 Queen of Scots (4,6)
7 Land on Lake Victoria (6)
8 Grandson of Esau and son of Eliphaz (6)
9 Speech problem (4)
11 Place to which Jonah sailed, possibly in Spain (8)
13 Collection comprised solely of the works of a 20th century artist (8)
14 Run one’s eye over (4)
15 Assassin usurper of King Zechariah (6)
17 In chemistry, convert from atoms etc, by loss or gain of electrons to form electrically-charged particles (6)
19 Israelite camp site on the Red Sea during the Exodus (5-5)
Quick down
1 Smooth metal, symbol Fe (4)
2 Some Ghanaians (8)
3 Russian assembly (4)
4 Minister, clergyman (8)
5 First word from the canticle of the Virgin Mary (10)
6 Viceroy and son of the last king of Babylon (10)
10 Capital city and province of the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy (8)
12 Utterings in an irritated tone: filings (8)
16 Steven Spielberg comedy of 1991 with Dustin Hoffman as the eponymous villain (4)
18 Biblical peak; name given to some nonconformist chapels (4)
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