6 Piano specials arranged for certain Anglicans (13)
8 Rejoice, making din with a hundred at the front (4)
9 Insecure getting directions to the old city: it’s to do with hearing (8)
10 Creepy-crawly turning back, submerges again (6)
12 Stars among some dishy Adonises – 20 – inexplicably left (6)
13 Large return each harvest initially made Saul’s capital (6)
15 Stewart returned to location of shooting in SW England (6)
16 Bobby in Paris is jostled, angered by Frenchman’s involvement (8)
17 Row back, finally leaving old Jerusalem (4)
19 Uncool, him, on my abuse of ritual (4,9)
Cryptic down
1 Egg on footballer that’s no longer hot (4)
2 Ed’s washed any ingredients, but pancakes will be stale by now (3,9)
3 Resort to the return of Bigmouth Reagan, perhaps (6)
4 An officer in Ulster occupying British eviscerated: something to do with a Jeremiah? (6)
5 Aboriginal’s very specific bearing is needed to track latest excavation (8)
7 Making religious statues as excuse for art involved in this iconography’s been retained (12)
11 Letter’s addressee is an acidic type of Greek character being leader (8)
14 Summit concerning Channel Island promotion (6)
15 Becomes delirious after doctor’s script is crammed with vitamins (6)
18 Reed from Russian flower’s an edgy octave lower (4)
Quick across
6 What you call things if you can’t remember their names (13)
8 —- and Zeeb, two Midianite leaders captured by the Israelites (4)
9 Joan of Arc, Odette Churchill, for two (8)
10 Site of the famous Greek oracle (6)
12 Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people (6)
13 St John the ——, author of Revelation according to the KJV (6)
15 Diminishes gradually (literally or through perspective) (6)
16 Jeremiah’s birthplace (8)
17 Name shared by two Greek heroes of the Trojan War (4)
19 Old-fashioned type (5-2-3-3)
Quick down
1 Sinai location to which Hagar fled (4)
2 Rejecting the washing away of sins of infants (12)
3 Friend of David, also known as (the) Archite (6)
4 Port in Asia Minor, the address of one of the letters to the seven churches (6)
5 Commentator; perceiver (8)
7 N, S, E or W? (6,6)
11 Early Christian who retained the Mosaic Law, eschewing the teachings of Paul (8)
14 Ideograms, from the Japanese, inserted into text messages (6)
15 Most important island in French Polynesia (6)
18 Russia/Manchuria boundary river (4)
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