8 See 16 Down

10 Grant he returned quite late (7)

12 Conspire with Sebastian about boring returns (7)

13 Destroy cones — if so, that’s an admission (9)

15 Maiden speechless, beholding giant (5)

16 Things to be observed — tied by knot and agreed (7)

18 Satyr almost completely quiet coming to you and me (7)

20 Put gold on raincoat somewhere in the Far East (5)

22 Try out word of prayer before start of talk — old one or new one? (9)

25 Like covenant marked by strange icon outside a church (7)

26 Incident is recorded in kind of lyric poem (7)

29 Refills glass, has odd idea that everything is transitory (3,5,2,5)

Down

 1 Being disinherited, salvationists in European Union (4)

 2 Scale for measuring captured city (4)

 3 Perverts getting mixed drinks (6)

 4 Greek characters, old, in fanciful crimson (8)

 5 Would refugee have to be insane to seek this? Not necessarily (6)

 6 Abednego’s beginning to emerge from awful furnace with glee, brightness (10)

 7 See and grasp thorny brush (8)

 9 Oriental festival before the start of November (7)

11 Sign name of emperor (3)

14 Abel shuffles feet after dismissal — that’s plain to see (10)

16,8 Across Consent over armaments was peculiar warning against being a double agent (2,3,3,5,3,7)

17 A time to get various cities to side with the Athenians (8)

19 Being ahead, I glanced around, dropping bit of cash (7)

21 Difficult boy going thus becomes yob (6)

23 Money — sort in short supply (6)

24 Give sign of approval for place of refuge (3)

27 In Cameroon, an example of one reluctant to take on the responsibilities of parenthood (4)

28 It sounds like drug’s to eliminate pain (4)

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