Across
1 Decline to attend with half of Jewish feast completed (4,2)
5 Cloth dealers appear in newspaper snippet (8)
9 Resentful after two birds get their ends away with editor (10)
10 Indicate so? (4)
11 Under cover of darkness, say, one recent snap’s beginning to be developed (2,6)
12 Resident of Sodor and Man who had his doubts (6)
13 Saint meeting slippery character shows strength (5)
15 That woman and I varied about old Biblical dynasty (8)
18 Saintly Californian city with more beaches, mostly — visit (3,5)
19 Lifted vestment (5)
20 English Crusades overlooking vineyard sadly in early Christian centre (6)
22 Traitor is a source of fun getting caught (8)
25 Players are full, we hear (4)
26 Decoding Paul Lehmann’s detailed instructions (4,6)
27 Our group retreats during disrupted matins — bad sea conditions (8)
28 One first called a name pulled out (6)
Down
2 Notice 33% of ministers in office work? (5)
3 Prodigal Son? Renew his working with Dad, finally (9)
4 Founding disciple some worship eternally (5)
5 Leading the French to support dreadful book (5,10)
6 Final two members of jury following car to hearing? (8)
7 Glasgow’s Saint Jerry, say? (5)
8 Then ‘Alan’: a strange apostle (9)
14 Jude’s alias? Therefore about to append a note, finally (9)
16 Deposed, suffering red hot end! (9)
17 Members of the highest order, some heartless, charge that man (8)
21 Modern type of card about zealot, perhaps (5)
23 After this, there’s one butterfly (5)
24 Muse swapping ends to make speech (5)
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