1 Jacob’s children, inebriated, rise late – after one (10)
8 Star left Slovakia at times to play a French comic character (7)
9 British liar? Untrue (5)
10 Admit, say, it hurt with play on words backfiring (3,2)
11 Most of proper drink’s consumed, he discovered… (7)
12 …about finished after making a meal of it (6)
14 One of principle that’s suffered with the comeback of railway transport (6)
17 Atonement made, port adopted by pirates has last character banned… (7)
19 …the infamous captain and libertine died first (5)
21 He wrote a psalm, initially carved in wood (5)
22 Similar to 19, the bird guy’s mine in a fighting arena (7)
23 ‘Me no priest!’ suggests an apostle in denial (5,5)
Cryptic down
2 Sadistic and threatening and nasty, originally an angel (5)
3 Appropriately, a front-row forward’s XXL (7)
4 Wantonness of Luxembourg’s money-lending sees Americans leave (6)
5 Line on border’s set up, one that belongs to Noah (5)
6 Matisse interpretation of a maritime phenomenon (3,4)
7 A Catholic high cleric and church dignitary (4-6)
8 Of fiction, possibly, that makes Carol happy (10)
13 They correspond to old wartime friends put into compound earlier (3,4)
15 Recently going to church, girl regularly goes down through French valley (7)
16 Drugs agency’s on to criminal, a man of the church (6)
18 Book one for raising a new stink (5)
20 Tested, removing the shackles of standard definition, viewing that’s unrestricted (5)
Quick across
1 Roman to whom Luke’s Gospel and The Acts were addressed (10)
8 Prophet who foretold of Ahab’s defeat by the Assyrians (7)
9 Bantu language closely related to Zulu (5)
10 Puccini opera between La Boheme and Madame Butterfly (1899) (5)
11 ——- Festival, a church service of thanksgiving (7)
12 Only landlocked region of Italy in which sits Assisi (6)
14 Unfortunate who suffers from some adverse circumstance; one tricked, swindled, mugged or killed (6)
17 Tiresomely long (7)
19 Matter (5)
21 Meats cooked in their juices (2,3)
22 Hydrocarbons (7)
23 Father in Numbers with no sons but five daughters (10)
Quick down
2 Grub Street journalists (5)
3 Paper manipulation (7)
4 Good one! (2,2,2)
5 Modern Egyptian city built partly on the site of Thebes (5)
6 Most immediately (7)
7 Blind beggar healed by Jesus (10)
8 Patriarch, the grandfather of Noah (10)
13 Heavily-fortified Spanish town taken by Wellington in 1812 (7)
15 Spanish saint (7)
16 Gone, finished (4,2)
18 Chart holder (5)
20 Hindu god, destroyer and reproducer (5)
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