Across

1 Note allowed you and me to find place near Ephesus (7)

5 Canonised instead after conversion? (7)

9 McCabe and Deaconess edited one of 10 books (6,9)

10 Uncanonical ‘happy’ carol to be transposed (10)

11 Endless bilge: contrary and insincere (4)

13 Character in Eliot losing old book (11)

17 Prayed in ridiculously stupid place (11)

20 Orient each way? (4)

21 No literacy after translating book for 2? (10)

25 New handbag redolent of 10 book (3,3,3,6)

26 Tried hiding in bushes, say: Eden? (7)

27 Finalists in the quiz peruse and like new book (7)

Down

1 Modigliani sketches angel, showing wings only, in Mass-book (6)

2 Reader’s a cannibal, according to the audience! (6)

3 Tone of voice (5)

4 Sign of hesitation over source of upheaval in special case review (3,2)

5 Star-sign in unpredictable ascent offers confirmation, say (9)

6 Leader of worship depicted in setter’s hymns? (4)

7 Get hold of brews, after golf abandoned in deluge (3,5)

8 Disregards finish, suppressing sound of woe over empty years (8)

12 Promise Dean’s initial argument will be overturned (4)

13 Sad Duke regularly duels student (4)

14 Like God: without sin, and, since true: amazing! (9)

15 Island suppressing confusion with uplifting Mass (8)

16 Record is on time, followed by the French letters (8)

18 According to hearsay, man pursuing witch’s book (6)

19 Promoted plan — my handbag to contain songbook (6)

22 Those people heading for Ely forming subject for discussion (5)

23 Dreary Scots taken in by courier (5)

24 Perhaps one of the seven Englishmen very heartless (4)

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