Across
1 Virtuous souls aren’t commonly seen aboard ship (6)
4 Clergyman’s tea, not highly seasoned (8)
10 Saint abandoning unfamiliar mountain chain (5)
11 Hypocritical speech entertaining crazy rebel officiant (9)
12 Clown’s depression about brief blunder (7)
13 Stop! Shift eyes left — the Bishopric of Rome (4, 3)
14 I’m put out following US school event’s musical item (9)
16 Portent recalled in reading Isaiah (4)
19 Rector penetrating obscure feature of Biblical plague (4)
21 Tool needs reconditioned magnet (9)
24 Copyists regularly assess when plagiarism’s involved (7)
26 Disguise call to enter space port (7)
27 Young child literary heroine adopts happens to write letters obliquely (9)
28 I lament over Biblical woman (5)
29 Sermons: third note stored in sacred places (8)
30 Medium engaged in modest humour (6)
Down
1 Elevated order cultivated samphire (8)
2 Boniface — popular person impeded by broken knee (9)
3 Instrument that’s plucked the world over (7)
5 Cerberus, perhaps, restrained having consumed most of unholy rogue (9)
6 Semi-precious agates — decline to cut examples without test (7)
7 Horses like crossing raised bar (5)
8 Spice fruitcake with touch of mace, say (6)
9 Second bed for Highlander? (4)
15 Penalties crushed Biblical territory (9)
17 Good traditional learning about enigmatic holy place for odds and ends (5, 4)
18 Joyless at heart, silently beheaded waving daffodil (4, 4)
20 Local girl eating cheese is an angel (7)
22 Uplifting elaborate lyrics enthralling contralto on lower part of duet (7)
23 Prophet — one extremely snobbish about waiting- maid (6)
25 A lot of sheets of paper encompassing learner’s field of study (5)
26 Vessel scratching sides of drainage channels (4)
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