6 Good rugby backs, three-quarters from 20, are real fighters (6)
8 Kind of examination after church of ensemble singing (6)
9 Nabal’s home, being negative, the first person to be recalled (4)
10 Assert one’s right to stop the opening of a site in Yorkshire (8)
11 This comes out of Thomas’ Sahara Desert place in the Scriptures (6)
13 Ben from Scotland finds island’s links with ‘St Christophers’ familiar (5)
15 At sea, clever Dick clerk worked out Sanskrit (5)
16 Tastelessly showy supporters disheartened Swansea City (6)
18 Tuck for instance needed for this outfit? It’s a long-term short-coming! (3,5)
19 Romantic interlude with one dubious lady American dumped (4)
21 Just like Gandalf: hat’s blown off and replacement’s left somewhere in Cornwall (6)
22 Intricate gold and brown-backed number (6)
Cryptic down
1 Dubious values when the French, divided, ceded capital to Fiji (4)
2 He forewarned to a degree welcome expected south of French lake (7)
3 Flakiness of many caught in move from site to site (5)
4 Flock to Mass? (12)
5 Gospel one possesses is about apostle going after Judas (8)
7 Yanks high wig off, taking the biblical route (5,7)
12 Piece of a rosary found in St Mary’s Avenue, Rome? (3,5)
14 Hill’s after a wage, one that helps and encourages (7)
17 Act up in Lincoln’s Inn? (5)
20 Himalayan creatures, yaks, eat tiny insects, primarily (4)
Quick across
6 Ammunition, the flight of which can be observed by a trail of smoke (6)
8 Syrian cured of leprosy by dipping seven times in the R Jordan (6)
9 Primary subtractive colour for light; blue/green hue (4)
10 Pharisee who spoke up for the Apostles in the Sanhedrin (8)
11 Streak of light in the sky caused by a piece of rock burning on entering the Earth’s atmosphere (6)
13 Happening (5)
15 Utter: plain (5)
16 Parade; show off (6)
18 Physical region comprising Turkey today; the Asia Minor of the NT (8)
19 Apart from Cain and Abel the only other named offspring of Adam and Eve in Genesis (4)
21 Louisa M ——, author of
Little Women and Jo’s Boys (6)
22 Island upon which Paul made landfall at Mitylene (6)
Quick down
1 Paris airport, now mainly for domestic flights (4)
2 One of sixteen popes of the same name (7)
3 International banker or financier (5)
4 Focus of 22 in an earlier life (4,2,6)
5 Geographical feature of S America 600 miles north of the nearest point in Antarctica (4,4)
7 Ordination of a bishop; sanctification (12)
12 Jumble; knot (8)
14 Good-natured (7)
17 Barrage; concerted bombardment (5)
20 Norse god of thunder (4)
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