Crossword no. 647

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Spanish state-run luxury hotel (7) Someone who delays (9)

Hawick-born oratorio singer (6,7) System of weights used for precious stones and metals (4) Drug inducing sleep or insensibility, or relieving pain (8) Repute, estimation, regard (5) Pivot on which lever turns (7) Mediaeval contrivance for hurling large stones (7) Someone who assists a priest in a religious service (7) Sacred site founded by St Columba in 563 (4,5) C of E parish exempt from jurisdiction of own diocese (8) Marsh bird of the heron family with a deep booming call (7) Domesticated long-haired South American mammal (6) The SI unit of electrostatic capacity (5) Traditional Moroccan house with interior garden (4)