Across

8 Classes read old revised potted texts (4,3,7)

9 Symbolic name recalled me and a bad Spanish waiter! (8)

10 Tense could be difficult, by implication (6)

11 Lords of our time, operating by machine intelligence (6) 

13 Help, I’m in struggles with the giants of Genesis (8)

14 A wartime singer, for example, turned mean (7)

16 Knowing man, perhaps, fixed costing (7)

19 Wounds dishonour the reserve force (8)

21 Mum, sad about Jewish mass suicide (6)

24 Left with immediate affection, initially, for Bassanio’s wife (6)

25 Franciscan nun, a youth taken by oriental
  steamship (8)

27 Where dieter pays for the heat unit? (7,7)

Down

1 The first man of Faith? (4)

2 Grandson of Noah to preserve two articles (6)

3 Foolish person, superior to Ur’s first dynasty, is taking too much for granted (8)
4 Turned up bearing a policy regarding several New Testament books? (7)

5 Take fruit, Cox’s Red primarily, concealed in a water pit (6)

6 Complies erratically in ecclesiastical debates (8)

7 Distributed Sid’s facile secret? (10)

9 Age displayed by Father Almighty? (3)

12 Too evil and disturbed for use in religious worship (10)

15 Fasting period before Ascension sees giant Amorite king tucking into a portion of food (8)

17 Number one, in France we are arousing a religious feeling (8)

18 Bad actor on fake mobile bed? (7)

20 Current account with immediate access, firstly, for sensitive growth (6)

22 Guarantee river will fill farm building (6) 

23 Palm Sunday transport service, a minute off (3)

26 Lord’s worker to check websites, we hear (4)

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