7 Savoury’s point is to contain an element of salt (6)
8 Esau’s grandson is a king with the heart of a man (6)
9 Thousand kilometres in a ring for Acre, as the Hebrews called it (4)
10 Piece of music (The Messiah?) he proved to be fake (3-5)
11 Play in the day after the morning in Paris, is gratis for the second half (7)
13 Like this 60s number (5)
15 Bathsheba’s old man you texted about locks (5)
16 Oriental garb covering feet, aka, dubiously, ‘Nazis’ wings’ (7)
18 Rock and roll, chap! Nice (8)
19 The least bit aware of Pentecost? (4)
21 Operational procedure to divert half of Tuscan river (6)
22 Directions help when circumnavigating a book (6)
Cryptic down
1 Pay attention to an Apostle (4)
2 Ouch, N Carolina failed to set time for the Mass (9,4)
3 Pads away, runs, on making farewells (3,4)
4 Golden colour a month in France secured, going native (5)
5 Alchemic process of a Jesus parable? (5,4,4)
6 Rugby’s wearing green is revolting to leader of the pack (seen on the crest of a South American) (8)
12 Levi’s extraordinary omission is from a biased re-evaluation flyer (8)
14 Managed, after tardy start, the Council of Rome (7)
17 Characters in reversal emphatically point to a settlement – as it says in the scriptures (5)
20 Offer one raised seeing something in the footnotes (4)
Quick across
7 Leave suddenly (6)
8 Sea that’s currently black? (6)
9 —- Bartok, (1881-1945), Hungarian composer (4)
10 Country in which Paul visited the city of Lystra (8)
11 Agent of God: ‘The guardian of the Jewish people’ (7)
13 Capital of Jordan (5)
15 Hot sauce: hot dance! (5)
16 6th century Bishop of Confert, saint and navigator (7)
18 Italian poet (1304-74)
famous for love lyrics (8)
19 Eldest son of Ham; African country named after him (4)
21 Capital of New York State (6)
22 One of Ulster’s traditional six counties (6)
Quick down
1 Daughter of Zeus (4)
2 Follower of Zoroaster in the Avestan (13)
3 2nd century Gnostic who believed God really lived, in a body formed from the elements (7)
4 Islam’s most important shrine (5)
5 Exclude from a church or a religious community; banish (13)
6 Arabic word meaning ‘uprising’, used at first by Palestinians in clashes (1988-1993) with Israel over West Bank and Gaza occupations (8)
12 Queen of Castile who married Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 (8)
14 Part of London in Upper Holloway, named after a specific landmark over-bridge (7)
17 —– of the Seven Isles: novella by Joseph Conrad (1912) (5)
20 WWII and post-war British black marketeer (4)
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