Across

8 Manchester town producing cake and a lot of Castilian cooking for the church? (14)

9 Nice beef prepared for a rector’s appointment (8)

10 Mad King’s source of idiocy, coming back with Jacob’s new name (6)

11 Lord, one diverting no aid (6)

13 Guiding us to a man with engagement symbol (8)

14 Faith, say, given to a colony member who’s resolute (7)

16 In favour of tube merchandise (7)

19 Sequence of events in Acre, so unusual (8)

21 Out of print applications for pieces of music (6)

24 Short and fat saint’s hesitation encountering first couple of pyramids (6)

25 A French Conservative, flashy and unknown, that’s clear (8)

27 Article in spin job that troubled a victim of Herod Antipas (4,3,7)

Down

1 Venerable scholar having part of necklace on the ear? (4)

2 Show movie observed to cover the King? (6)

3 Fifty-one from Rome in realm of Christianity, for example (8)

4 Tutor to Dionysus unless I misread (7)

5 Is excellent cry of surprise from prophet? (6)

6 Reflective Russian space station runs over signal to stop (8)

7 Portable sanctuary, given recent skirmishing with Baal (10)

9 Snake found in gazebo assembly (3)   

12 Cato died in irregular blessing (10)

15 My Parisian university chaps have model for a commemorative structure (8)

17 Cry with coupe mishandled? Get in again (8)

18 Column with no base, but supported by graduate displays Irish saint (7)

20 Tempo that goes with blues? (6)

22 Chateau topiary manifests a perfect Eden (6) 

23 Sunday, and German leaving in state (3)

26 Ditching core of old-fashioned import levy (4)

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