Across

9 Song and dance helping worship (9)

10 Characters joining in fun clearly part of the family (5)

11 Torrid area limiting small ornamental plant (5)

12 22A’s cardinal flourishing (9)

13 Man miraculously saved from chasm he tumbled down (7)

14 State territory detailed in song (7)

17 Poor mark in school systematically disguised (5)

19,20 rticle covering clergy (3,5)

21 Old country houses by river — the last of those in continent (7)

22 See 27D

24 Officially names boy or girl carrying gun (9)

26 Modernise great city with Queen’s backing (5)

28 See 27D

29 Jets ruined 28 (9)

Down

1 Bishop at home initially in 28 (4)

2 Turns out after judge mounted contests (6)

3 Buddhist priest with smoother coat, a cold-blooded type (10)

4 Trashy outfit last to impress child (6)

5 Sort of animal for all to see, antelope turning up after time (8)

6 Woman’s humdrum existence with husband (4)

7 Pilate’s words resound round church a short time (4,4)

8 Levi restored what nun took (4)

13 This person joins two hundred coming to a holy place (5)

15 Cremate doctor in certain end to existence (10)

16 Reindeer heading off tribe (5)

18 Recount case of disconsolate biblical teacher (8)

19 Exchange oft feared without English compromise (5-3)

22 Temple queue reduced by two after a couple of seconds (6)

23 How one might receive popular melody first? (4,2)

24 Fellow cleric half cut (4)

25 Hateful flower can’t be moved, they say (4)

27, 22A,28 By sweat tribesman may create historic place of worship (11,5)

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