Across
7 Troglodyte edges out to backing music - religious song
(3,5)
9 Repay archdeacon in time (6)
10 Television usually bears this burden (4)
11 Phlebas was one turning each pinion (10)
12 Tom Cruise's last Shakespearean role (6)
14 Island map book containing initially nothing that's interesting
(8)
15 Unscrupulous types in temple confusing man with cheery song
(5,8)
17 Lavish pay - more gold in junk, not bad money (8)
19 Creamy, thick ingredients? Fabulous! (6)
21 Sire afflicted with demons preached (10)
22 He paid dearly for his supper - a portion of tongue sausage
(4)
23 Going around end of garden, repeatedly touch plant (6)
24 Sure, I saw you pushing hard uphill, slowly at first, being
unable to make it to the top (8)
Down
1 Cable placed under bottom of the express (6)
2 Shepherd from Tekoa turning up body (4)
3 Pray about new epoch, having issued a prediction (8)
4 Animal would be right in watery environment (6)
5 Destroy in raid - what's going down? (10)
6 What could be suiting a man of spiritual exercises (8)
8 Shook as Pilate moved in Good Friday procedure (13)
13 In our time an academic type would turn up on edge of Oxford
with car (4,6)
15 One who tends to make others late (8)
16 A wandering life, with Pythias' friend arising, is the ultimate
end of freedom (8)
18 Bloke evacuated library without excessive force (6)
20 This would-be high flyer became unstuck (6)
22 Notice there's a bit of earth on plant (4)
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