Across

8 That woman’s unpleasant-sounding queen (8)

9 Lady I converted was cloth dealer (5)

10 Initially, pessimistic expectation was empty seating in church (4)

11 Miscreant decapitated and set ablaze in Revelation? (5,5)

12 Nothing escapes sinful city after group of Jerusalem singers offers insight (6)

14 See 20 down

16 Judge girl in Society on reliability and honesty, first of all (7)

18 Quiet, like the score of 4’33”? (7)

21 Lou doing badly: online tutor? (8)

23 Mother travels around globe, dodging European: she was worried by many things (6)

24 Paints bugs with animals (10)

26 Donald’s predecessor left book (4)

27 How newsreaders talk, and newlyweds might walk? (2-3)

28 A certain favourite linked to former Queen in book (3,5)

Down

1 Commandment to show kindness seen in religious education? The opposite for this Jewish princess (8)

2 Leo XIV’s regularly revealing Timothy’s grandmother (4)

3 Note sign about one woman (6)

4 In suitcase, Nathanael hides Ephraim’s mother (7)

5 Slight mumble (4)

6 Manage to serve notice first (10)

7 Lively Leah runs round about her sister? (6)

13 With Church’s leader lost, conciliated wicked Emperor (10)

15 Night Garden character? (3)

17 Lord’s grandmother an NHS nurse originally (3)

19 That man will pursue a French editor, with another ignored (8)

  20, 14 We felt bonhomie, possibly, welcoming source of blessings: thirteen in this puzzle? (5,2,3,5)

22 Son entering into matrimony: singing from the same hymn sheet? (6)

23 Gain control over beak (6)

25 She initially marvelled and responded, ‘Yes!’ (4)

26 Prison, we hear, for one who pegged it? (4)

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