1 It’s Og’s place to pan article (6)
1 Tiny bit dynamited from interior (4)
3 Country Paul visited is endlessly loyal to Cain – totally misplaced (8)
9 Capital of Syria’s against old Church (7)
10 Saul’s commander, one fronting Bern convention (5)
11 Opening up international business/industrial zones at a Mediterranean tourist spot (5)
12 Unbiased when following the Spanish team (6)
14 Snake turned a little girl white (6)
16 Hungarian’s a good distance, not closing, behind Frenchman (6)
19 Day is coming after guy from Rome claims benefit (6)
21 Dean was one with no cause to dissent (5)
24 Allow chap in limbo… (5)
25 …to deduce number required to proceed to hell (7)
26 On the road with sailor, going west to desert, is the high priest (8)
27 War dance without one, English see as something fishy (4)
Cryptic down
1 Flightless bird gnaws at Israel’s enemies (8)
2 Musical ensemble piece: it supports retrospective for an informally-named archaeological find (5)
4 Cut silage over there and here, Lord? (6)
5 An opening that’s made in stone (5)
6 Sean’s firm pulled out for a Greek character to head up collective (7)
7 Crusaders against Saracens here make a plot (4)
8 Mogadishu resident’s limo’s a convertible (6)
13 He wrote radio part when in drink (8)
15 Fiddle Amati played – it enthralled Jonah’s dad (7)
17 Aimless divorce when publicity is over (6)
18 State of Boston’s almost aristocratic soul points to an island of the old Med (6)
20 Stream of reforms Council made here? (5)
22 Polish upset with the Ford model overall (5)
23 Russia will arm Crimea ultimately for river battle (4)
Quick across
1 Edith —-, French singer nicknamed ‘The Little Sparrow’ (4)
3 The Hebrew word for ‘Bloody Acre’ as spelt in the KJV (8)
9 Son of Phinehas (7)
10 Friend of Job (5)
11 Inaccuracy (5)
12 Youngest wife of Muhammad (6)
14 Legendary 3rd century Irish bard and warrior (6)
16 Shrine where Elisha dealt with a pot of ‘poisoned’ stew (6)
19 Semi-formal man’s jacket; part of a sporting or school uniform (6)
21 Puccini opera (1900) (5)
24 Jesse’s eldest son (5)
25 English saint (variant name) who founded a monastery in 654: churches are named after him in Boston and Bishopsgate (7)
26 Name shared by a prophet (1 Kgs), a false prophet (Jer) and a follower of David (1 Chr) (8)
27 Confusingly-called upland feature (4)
Quick down
1 Christian whose slave escaped and went to see Paul (8)
2 Son of Jacob with Zilpah (5)
4 One of a piscatorial series of confrontations between UK and Iceland in 1976 (3,3)
5 Belgian city (5)
6 David’s female attendant in his old age (7)
7 Supreme god of the Egyptians, identified with the sun god Ra (4)
8 Regional and physical geographical name for Spain and Portugal (6)
13 One of several of the same name, son of Achbor sent by Jehoiakim to bring back Uriah from Egypt (8)
15 Saint- ——-, after Notre Dame, Paris’ largest church (7)
17 Entirely (2,4)
18 Peninsula of SW Asia (6)
20 Animal crossing point? (5)
22 Volley of ammunition, artillery or words (5)
23 Rudolf —-, Deputy Fuhrer, the Third Reich, who died in Spandau Prison in 1987 (4)
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