7 Spectre of a Scottish football team trailing Welsh (6)
8 Judges situation of bringing back a Marx Brother – to bury him, primarily (6)
9 Byzantine drama with many coming from a city in Canaan (4)
10 It’s a woolly chap that keeps a seabird circling close to Leeds (8)
11 Born ruler (he’s an Aries), about to trap leader of Egyptians on board (7)
12 Jebusite runs into a son of Judah (5)
15 Dionysus’ boy, most prominent of the hooligans on Athens’ streets (5)
17 Aptitude for school? (7)
20 Biblical city before a sea race settled (8)
22 Borne by pan-Arab, or an Adriatic, breeze (4)
23 Sounds like a lamb, a beast at the end of its tether? (6)
24 Family life, the place that’s central to a sloth, ultimately (6)
Cryptic down
1 The place to smoke is a dodgy bar at Rhodes O’Connor’s ejected from (8)
2 Lot taken here in battle – little boy’s not very bright (6)
3 Practice among Indian villains when conditions were poetically muggy? (7)
4 Issue of Japheth, being supporter of French sea travel (5)
5 Babylonia in Genesis where rain storms end silence (6)
6 Key to a good education in the US? (4)
13 Card found in remains of fire indicate it’s one of a trinity – that’s not good (8)
14 Book is something of a dismal achievement (7)
16 Texas site where titanium’s found amongst tin deposit under gold (6)
18 Positive vibe following connection with London train (6)
19 Time to meet Clio’s sister (5)
21 Numbers giant is an obsessive type for which no other option exists (4)
Quick across
7 The Voyage of the ——, title subsequently given to Charles Darwin’s Journal and Remarks (1839) (6)
8 Proprietary name, now used generically, for a rival to the Jumbo Jet (6)
9 Second letter of the ancient Greek alphabet (4)
10 Bishop of Worcester (c1009-1095) and saint (feast day 19 January) (8)
11 General term for a non-Jewish person in the Bible (7)
12 Impart knowledge (5)
15 King of England, 942-975, called ‘the Peaceful’ (5)
17 Aquatic bird which gives the state of Louisiana its nickname (7)
20 Uncle to Esther in Babylon (8)
22 Musical finale (4)
23 Paul ——, whose ‘ride’ alerted the American militia to British troops before the Battle of Lexington (1775) (6)
24 Translate ideas into practical exercises (3,3)
Quick down
1 Title or form of address to members of the clergy (8)
2 Shocked (6)
3 8th century epic poem in Old English (7)
4 Gather or bring together; come from behind (5)
5 Defoe’s shipwrecked hero (6)
6 Mountains of France which give their name to a richly fossiliferous geological period (4)
13 Emperor, 41-54 AD, who forced all Jews to leave Rome (8)
14 Philistine woman, a betrayer in Judges (7)
16 Confused; mixed-up (6)
18 Stir; rabble-rouse (6)
19 Musical chamber work, one remarkable example being Mendelssohn’s (5)
21 In cricket, part of a bowling spell (4)
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