Cryptic across
1 California’s (whichever way you look), North America’s ‘Promised Land’ (6)
4 Dreadfully-sounding Irish county (6)
8 Easterly he blew from Brussels to land half way there? (5)
9 Tempter of another initially spoilt fellow (7)
10 Two average scores, hard to get in a wet Damascus course (7)
11 Section of the Mass for first one to leave nest, getting work at last (5)
12 Imam Nadab created is descended from Levi (9)
17 I initially put in order before the middle of this month – it’s an incredibly long time (5)
19 Home counties repeatedly wreck comeback for Egyptian leader (7)
21 Old Bishop of York’s furious, taking half-day off (7)
22 Useless, and in record time (5)
23 Write back to Arab, one from Asia (6)
24 Cranmer linked content to a sorcerer (6)













