Catholic Herald

[dave1948]

I put some of these up last night without success.

7a Atmosphere of Armageddon recalled (4)
???H

8a Pack in the towel: throw it in (4,2)
???N ?P

5d Greek god stopped at bend to hear oreintal king's meting with a Canaanite king (5-5)
A???? ?E?E?

[slaney]

7a . Doesn't fit with your letter, but could it be mood - doom reversed??

[dannyk13]

8a.Give up?

[dave1948]

Thank you both.

As for mood the h in my answer comes from

1d Not edgy inside (6)
?I????
I thought within (which also gives the n in 9a) so having my doubts as the answer could be give up.

All ideas welcome

[dave1948]

I think 7a is mood

8a is give up

If so 5d is now
A?O?I ?E?E?

[slaney]

5d Only got half the wordplay but - Adoni-Bezek?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoni-bezek

[dave1948]

Thank you very much Slaney. You really are the star on the top of the Christmas tree Adoni-Bezek is definitely right and I have even managed to work out the ones where I gave duff answers.

Have a great Christmas

[slaney]

A very happy Christmas to you too Dave.

[dave1948]

Thank you again Slaney and for your good wishes.

When I followd your link it also mentioned Adoni-Zedec which I believe is the answer.
Adoni (shortened form of Adonis) zed (as in zed bend) oriental king (ek)

Please confirm if you agree and thank you once more !

[slaney]

Great - I had forgotten about Z-bends!

[dave1948]

One last one
15d Fuhrer's weighing on Kinf Edward something heavy (6)
L?A?E?
Leaded or leader or leaden ?

[shooty]

leader (Fuhrer)
king lear +ed

[shooty]

sorry rex edward in lead

[slaney]

Leader - Fuhrer
LEAD - something heavy
ER (Edward Rex)

[shooty]

I mucked up again, but hopefully you know what I meant

[dave1948]

I never cease to be amazed at AB's brain power.

Thank you one and all for all oyur help this year.No doubt I'll be back in 2013 assuming that the end of the world does not happen today !