Across

1 Foreign currency is provided by pope (7)

5 Barrier to shield domestic animal receiving a knock (7)

9 Pope’s not quite refined (5)

10 Appellation several popes used for their poetic namesake (9)

11 Degenerate academic with stitch in theatre (10)

12 Poet’s house high up (3)

14 Pope’s firm in east (11)

18 Pope peeled finest fruit (11)

21 Loiter regularly and stay (3)

22 Religiously observant, trying to improve (10)

25 Historic religious trio unexpectedly admitted by second pope (9)

26 The writer’s mature persona (5)

27 Swears seeing a priest’s final taxes (7)

28 Dog could be straying some day (7)

Down

1 Dowdy Unionist politician laid into cook (6)

2 Vestment number one turned up in Britain by tradition (6)

3 Journalist following war in two minds? (10)

4 Revolutionary young ladies adopting new style of speech (5)

5 Coastal resort’s cleric one missed at New York elevated (9)

6 Authentic South American currency (4)

7 Reportedly sell bishop home container for rubbish (5,3)

8 Total proceeds from pastry (8)

13 Early heresy’s mystic song I translated, wasting years (10)

15 Infamous Roman priestess wearing no ring (9)

16 Church assembly in two thirds of book (8)

17 Pope’s decree has previously been half-hearted (8)

19 Pope’s term for Trinity? (6)

20 A deadly sin’s already fixed (6)

23 Lots of players from musical enthralling son (5)

24 Pope showing devotion has nothing to lose (4)

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