Cryptic across
6 Mongolian leader is ‘bully, brute, animal’ (11)
8 Queen’s opting out – in Oxford, principal goes to ring fellow dinosaur (8)
9 Nice friends for the author (4)
10 Extremely bitter exchange, with letters at first, to Belgian who wrote in French (4)
12 Biblical nomad needs a little while to crash a religious service (7)
13 Two girls meet a novel and musical character... (7)
15 ...Eve, in date by the river (4)
16 Insect bite setback (4)
17 Essential end-section of Bible is modish in the UK (8)
19 Norm, any ring’s unseemly, choosing celibacy (3-8)