5 One Lotus’ start is unbelievable – all the stars are behind it! (11)
7 Roman general with a soft drink, hides a smirk, almost (8)
8 Agreeable French resort? (4)
9 One who leads a Spartan lifestyle, like the Welsh, perhaps, but not middle Wales (7)
10 Little Elizabeth lost her head, following bounder to a place in Spain (5)
12 Rugby players’ key ingredient in successes (5)
14 Hero’s love, in addition, is caught in old film retrospective (7)
17 Satan rejected, there’s no soul in German song (4)
18 I evade EU settlement in spirit (3,2,3)
19 Follower of a third century antipope’s not about: no Romish person is this! (11)
Cryptic down
1 Conflict over how, partially, they refer to the missus in Bow (6)
2 Loiters about near Lisbon (7)
3 Caucasian’s primarily athletic, ridiculously young and Nazi (5)
4 Lines in a row along with a little chap Zambia evacuated (6)
5 Scot’s finishing off a month in monastic order (11)
6 Anger, with bag that’s lifted, over significance for one to whom such things are holy (11)
11 Wife of Genesis star’s in Heart UK tour… (7)
13 …Lady Madonna, move over (6)
15 Can’t get out this way: turn around on East Eleventh Street’s terminus (2,4)
16 Roman goddess named in Zoroastrian work as decapitated (5)
Quick across
5 Welsh town, site of the original, now defunct, University of Wales (11)
7 Oath or exclamation descended from the battle cry of medieval English soldiers (2,6)
8 Freshwater duck: blue-green shade (4)
9 Abbot of Glastonbury and Archbishop of Canterbury in the 10th century (7)
10 Arguably, the city of Melchizedek (5)
12 Missionary companion and secretary to Paul, alternatively named Silvanus (5)
14 Base, caddish (7)
17 Ancient Persian language, aka Avestan (4)
18 US artist, whose Portrait of the Painter’s Mother (1871) hangs in the Musée d’Orsay (8)
19 One who practises or believes in divine wisdom and spiritual ecstasy; of a society formed in 1875 (11)
Quick down
1 Name shared by a man cured by Peter and Virgil’s pre-Roman hero (6)
2 Nationality of Barnabas (7)
3 A short bishop! (2,3)
4 Remote Galatian city where Paul was stoned (6)
5 Forest of Arden Shakespeare comedy (2,3,4,2)
6 Most divine (11)
11 Herod ——-, grandson of ‘the Great’ (7)
13 Son of Guni and father of Ahi, one of the Gadites who settled in Bashan (6)
15 Beat through cleverness and guile (6)
16 Citizen of a European nation by choice, a federation of disparate peoples and languages (5)
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