CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

2. Norma may have been one (5)

5. Protect shelter belt from loss (5)

8. The time you wish to start from scratch again? (5,4,4) 10. Finish goal (3) 11. Pseudo hat? Don’t you believe it! (9)

13. Opuses about the other half (6)

14. Girl gets a member for the fleet (6)

17. Eking corn out – it’s a calculation (9)

19. Commit suicide at the summit? (3) 21. Descriptive of someone looking for certain building materials. They are looking into it (6,7)

23. Surfaces no use for neckwear (5)

24. So Les is not the winner (5)

Down

1. Grandpa steadfastly gets some glue (5)

3. Soften aim for election promises (9)

4. Is necessary to get the French sewing implement (6) 5. The sphere partly belonged to that girl (3)

6. Dictator has no car ... and again (5)

7. Aztec hid nail scissors from the Australian (7) 9. Novelised but not Len’s tape (5)

12. Notorious sort of ogre guise (9)

13. Untidy writings caused by being on one’s hands and knees in the ship (7) 15. Misbehave but captured no red (3,2)

16. I go into Leeds for some fuel (6)

18. Company will nag about the dance (5)

20. What you may need to put your “super” in (5)

22. Shut down because it smells a bit (3)