5 One more duty to perform in the book (11)
7 Captured list identifying Egyptian Christian (4)
8 Dishevelled barbarians remove leader ahead of retreat (8)
9 He’s broken records, American, to reach site of Artemis’ temple (7)
10 Pan girl’s directions to get to easternmost part of island in New York (5)
12 Hearts maybe with Irish county after Kerry’s ultimate withdrawal (5)
15 Frenchman’s stress as moved out of place in Tennessee (7)
19 Capital support when trouble is all around (8)
20 Boring going round Rhode
Island today (4)
21 Place in the Bible to hunt? Misnomer, possibly (5,6)
Cryptic down
1 Overriding desire’s concerning, it being a glossy quality (6)
2 Jacob’s boy’s an ox: Monday in Paris turned up without I/D (7)
3 Idaho settlement is pronounced as ‘puerile’ (5)
4 Well-versed, he – one that predicted 50 from hot opener (6)
5 Flag where dirt road is up… (5)
6 …give way at first to youth, idling engine, looking daggers (5)
11 Tabernacle’s builder left after a chiselled edge made it round (7)
13 Foreign Office drink in a public place (5)
14 Ancestor of Assyrian’s beast of burden’s sore, having tail docked (6)
16 With open hands welcome Sunday’s sacred songs (6)
17 Top team suffering reversal is one punished by Zeus (5)
18 Philosopher’s a tenant within a group of Palestinians (5)
Quick across
5 Act of praying for divine protection (11)
7 Insincere or sanctimonious talk about religion or morals (4)
8 Town fortified by Rehoboam for which Micah prophesied
disaster (8)
9 Heroine of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (7)
10 The fourth of Job’s friends (5)
12 Surname shared by David (broadcaster) and Robert (poet) (5)
15 Three winged sister monsters with ‘hair’ of writhing snakes (7)
19 ——– of 8, who prophesied against Jehoshaphat (8)
20 River giving its name to a battle in the Crimean War in 1854 (4)
21 Priest, adviser to Ptolemy VII (11)
Quick down
1 —— Reformed Church: merger of the Congregationalists and Presbyterian Churches in 1972 (6)
2 Descendant of Esau, whose people settled in in the Negev (7)
3 Capital of Ghana (5)
4 Book containing all the prayers and responses to celebrate the Mass (6)
5 William —–, visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827) (5)
6 South Wales former mining and tinplate town (5)
11 Irish apostle who inspired northern Britain (7)
13 Most famous wine of Spain, mostly red (5)
14 Former German duchy, capital Augsburg, now split between Germany, France and Switzerland (6)
16 Betty ——, Hollywood star and wartime pin-up (6)
17 City, capital of the Gard departement in southern France (5)
18 One political half of Hispaniola (5)
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