1 Common belief it requires fine Geordie principles (6,5)
9 One’s doomed to fail not being a cricket-type – perhaps can’t keep quiet (2-5)
10 Breed of conscientious objector and resistance fighter (5)
11 Big slow bit – no Oscar direction in the end (5)
12 Taxes longstanding practices (7)
13 Provision about Los Angeles utility (6)
15 In addition, maybe a toff (2,4)
18 Compound the pay for anti-social hours, say (7)
20 Can’t get away with the apostrophe in jargon (5)
22 State American’s return as appearance in turf’s special meeting (5)
23 Herb’s an old Sweeney officer in specs (7)
24 Protestant taking time out to convert queen to prayer (11)
Cryptic down
2 Piece of polemic Horace makes into divine flowing stuff (5)
3 Fast-track former journalist (7)
4 Grace’s English bearing being superior, well-healed (6)
5 Tails, not heads, as one stands (5)
6 Noble award given for the organ part (7)
7 Manic signal coming from Canterbury… (11)
8 …licentious nature of the monasteries in the 16th century? (11)
14 Booster, something that works, to get girl up (7)
16 Main kind of fitness marine animals, for example, embraced (3,4)
17 Horse nobbler? (6)
19 Confuse cleric with drink all about (5)
21 Shot of viagra, people? (5)
Quick across
1 From which God spoke to Moses (7,4)
9 Surname of an Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church (1225-1274) (7)
10 Humiliate, demean (5)
11 Trudge, trek (5)
12 Crescent-shaped orna-ment: arched opening in a vault (7)
13 Marine bird of prey: rugby player from a merged Neath-Swansea team (6)
15 Spain and Portugal as a geomorphological name (6)
18 Particular polygon (7)
20 Baghdad resident (5)
22 Arouse (5)
23 Feeling of joy and pride (7)
24 Diplomatic representative of the Pope (11)
Quick down
2 Extension into the throat of the mouth’s soft palate (5)
3 Having nine parts (7)
4 Snuggle up (6)
5 Muscle: jellied meat processed from the head of a pig (5)
6 Damage or destroy; break into tiny pieces (7)
7 Apostle sometimes identified as Nathanael in John [TJB] (11)
8 The ———– of St John the Divine: KJV title for a NT book (11)
14 Crushing remark (3-4)
16 ‘North ——-’, official
parliamentary term for Scotland after the Act of Union (1707) (7)
17 Apprentice: one incarcerated (6)
19 Land once granted to both RC and C of E clergy as part of their benefice (5)
21 Latin word used in law, meaning ‘in another place or elsewhere’ (5)
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