5 ‘Knocking back’ drink to English is a figure of speech (5)
6 Ballad Dylan flipped over in a town near Joppa (5)
8 Fine ace copper (marshal) gives, he’s anticipated? (6,2,5)
9 One that works to make Greek god the brightest star in the firmament (7)
10 Northern location that’s ahead of the rest: it’s on radio,… (5)
13 …an article about Yorkshire city centre, once the most northerly place in the world (5)
14 Washington Post: ‘Treason is fake?’ (7)
16 Hill pony belongs to a girl (5,2,6)
18 Paul’s cellmate finally gets to like the sea receding… (5)
19 …being prisoner escaping from substantial place in the Aegean (5)
Cryptic down
1 Songwriters informally see the Pope (4,4)
2 Venerable one, the last American character, embraced the father of two Apostles (7)
3 An attic is where you’d expect it to be (5)
4 Wood cutter’s writing notes evenly through map book (4)
5 Icon of devotion for pilgrims may be a disappointment if they nervously rush round it (5,6)
7 Dire coach service across the south-east to Westminster, for instance (11)
11 Place to meet one chap all about OT types (8)
12 Island to find in a down acrostic, perhaps, except the fifth letter replaces the penultimate one? (7)
15 King of Israel and Judah go after wood work contracts (5)
17 Book in which over half are dead (4)
Quick across
5 Go on and on: pilotless aircraft (5)
6 In cricket, a bowler’s approach to the wicket (3-2)
8 Stake everything on success, not being able to take a step backwards (4,4,5)
9 Large bird with brilliant tail feathers (7)
10 Seventh sign of the zodiac (5)
13 Boreal region: George —–, Northampton Saints & Wales rugby player (5)
14 Epithet attached to King Antiochus V (7)
16 Alternative name for the Feast of the Holy Sacrament (6,7)
18 Give way: return (5)
19 Settled, prevailing or habitual course of a person’s life (5)
Quick down
1 One of Ireland’s four traditional provinces, centred on the city of Galway (8)
2 Daughter of Herod Agrippa I (7)
3 Assignation (5)
4 KJV preposition, now archaic (4)
5 Book of the Pentateuch from the Greek, ‘Second Law’ (11)
7 The Lord’s Prayer, from it’s opening words (5,6)
11 Persians, until officially renamed in 1935 (8)
12 Descendant of Noah’s grandson, living in the OT in what is now Ethiopia, Sudan and upper Egypt (7)
15 Parenthetical comment (5)
17 Motley, variegated (4)
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