7 Sheen’s an Irishman at home with adult to support (6)
8 Not particularly clean German town, after cutback’s ending up like one in Scandinavia (6)
9 Lord, the ultimate in sleazy brash shallow trash (4)
10 One on a mission to boycott a number that’s left before they’ve graduated (8)
11 This hue’s wrong for Bildad, for instance (7)
13 Like in 60s hits the middle section to finger (5)
15 Artist’s blue period’s abridged for review (5)
16 You are reciting, in politically correct English, lines he composed (7)
18 Box for KJV you dip into has index opening at a place in Acts (8)
19 Book’s honesty as time goes by (4)
21 Dad, a sailor at heart, is in port where Paul and Luke changed ships (6)
22 He shone a light on voting in Aleppo’s fringe areas (6)
Cryptic down
1 German composer means little in Wales (4)
2 Is he an Anglican cleric on drugs: is Catholic sympathetic? (4,9)
3 West Country place’s pubs run out – uprising on Sunday (7)
4 Market place in the centre of Indian city is old (5)
5 Jurassic toad I treated, and a rat (5,8)
6 Uplifted, illuminated, about a band getting to the top on religious grounds (8)
12 Tough guy, one seen at the core of school gangs (8)
14 Hound accountant to get round – that’s the spirit (7)
17 Girl’s name for a Scottish town (5)
20 Jazz fan about fifty’s fallen for soft rock (4)
Quick across
7 Opposer of Nehemiah’s attempt to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls (6)
8 Maurice Ravel’s most famous work (6)
9 Burden (4)
10 See 1 Down
11 Biblical missive (7)
13 Tradition, practice (5)
15 Mt —–, Icelandic active volcano, called in medieval times, ‘The Gateway to Hell’ (5)
16 Governor of a country or province representing his or her sovereign (7)
18 Priest of Nob, killed for assisting David (8)
19 The ‘Mormon’ state (4)
21 Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people (6)
22 And others (Latin) (2,4)
Quick down
1/10 Tudor composer of liturgical music (4,8)
2 High mass of Beethoven and to a lesser extent, Mozart and others (5,8)
3 Sir Frank ——-, inventor of the jet engine (7)
4 From the beginning (Latin, lit ‘from the egg’) (2,3)
5 Certain bodies of RC clergy like the Barnabites and Jesuits (6,7)
6 Chord of musical notes performed in rapid (usually) upward progression (8)
12 In maths, a diagram of a
circle cut into slices (3,5)
14 More earthy (7)
17 Admiral’s command (5)
20 Zealous (4)
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