1 Player’s going to object to a northern trainer at the outset (10)
8 Houses attracting Indian money in the past gain praise (7)
9 Feeble empty talking about a guitar sound (5)
11 Fleece chap, one of Paul’s hosts… (5)
12 …the Americans here see as a Greek hero (7)
13 Ammonite dynasty’s repelled, what’s left after the fire (6)
15 Haydn mass Mendelssohn played, ignoring the first of slow movements he’d arranged… (6)
18 …reflecting articles South American first penned on a Mozart heroine (7)
20 OT character’s ice cream toppled, getting hot (5)
22 Very bad location, but love old rockers’ competition coming back around (5)
23 Jack’s high they call, against one of David’s thirty (7)
24 Stories from one or two OT books (10)
Cryptic down
2 Band of Hope in the desert? (5)
3 They’re in occupation, being almost a full team of workers (7)
4 Here were Greek warriors reaching the southernmost pass to set up an ambush (6)
5 New Testament’s entrance through time, looking back, is in cave (5)
6 They live in the Sahara with desert round and about, you tweeted to say, close to Tunis (7)
7 Going berserk, Jon seethes trying to keep abreast of this lot… (3,7)
10 …endless seething due when aggrieved, like ‘your good health’ lost in translation after a sneezing fit! (10)
14 Jew, fundamentally, obtains identity of one in charge (7)
16 Lamenting English part, with CIA involvement (7)
17 Ham’s boy is able to corral a diminutive horse (6)
19 Name an Asian watercourse and a Belgian city (5)
21 Expression of disapproval in Scotland about tone (5)
Quick across
1 Leader of the exiles who returned to Judah to work with Joshua (10)
8 Vacation (7)
9 Cheer for the opera diva (5)
11 Proprietor (5)
12 Planet named after the Roman god of the Sea and the Underworld (7)
13 James ——, author of Lost Horizon (1933) (6)
15 Biliousness (6)
18 Fights pugnaciously (7)
20 Lacking taste, flavour or tang (5)
22 Site of the Texans’ battle against the Mexicans in 1836 (5)
23 Italian dish of filled pasta pockets (7)
24 NT book attributed to St John (10)
Quick down
2 Moabite king (5)
3 Submit (to experience) (7)
4 Barking, howling, with prolonged noises, of dogs (6)
5 Jazz-style dance music of the 1940s (5)
6 Associations of states, organizations, sports teams, etc (7)
7 Fear or hatred of God (10)
10 Home city to Apollos, an important early Church teacher (10)
14 Holy Roman Emperor, 817-855 (7)
16 Scandinavian liquor usually flavoured with caraway seeds (7)
17 Of the stars (6)
19 Pope at the time of 14, to whom the Asperges is ascribed (3,2)
21 City of Utah, home to the Mormon Brigham Young University (5)
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