Across

2. Greatest dedication to a single holy carving? (10)
4. The erstwhile lord of the ring. (7)
5. There were more than you could shake a stick at, but Dee only played in this one. (7)
7. Rest for a mystic month. (10)
10. Kelley perhaps owned this man’s hand-written nothing. (7)
13. Veracious and loyal kinsman. (8)
15. Chamber of Dee’s interrogation. (4)
16. Very good residence of the hospitable lord. (6)
17. This grandson stood by his man. (3)
21. The subject of a burly attempt at reform. (8)
25. Quality of these seven daughters. (8)
27. Deferred, but not of this lady’s blessed memory forgotten. (9)
28. He used to see on the road to Damascus. (4)
29. A bit tall, but otherwise what else could he be? (6)
30. Eponymous river. (3)
31. A thesaurus of this language is hard to find. (6)

Down

1. A retreating Greek might call this book holy. (5)
3. Spiritual movements. (7)
4. Royal cousin of blood-soaked Bess. (7)
6. Witness of the destruction by fire. (5)
8. The secret of this wood was its mysterious inner bark. (5)
9. Bibliophile lord apparently known to the Danes! (9)
11. Jonson’s caricature of Dee is hardly this. (6)
12. Dee caused this to ascend the highest heaven of invention. (6)
14. Divine diction. (8)
18. I hear it rumoured a painful harvest for these two. (4)
19. The Light of God. (5)
20. Not uncouth, a philosopher. (5)
22. Soothing ancestor of the Spanish Ambassador. (4)
23. Sulphur. (6)
24. The impecunious Palatine. (5)
26. Before whose countenance Dee wrote. (6)

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