CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Cheese with iron gets little thanks (4)

3. Spy a myth, but gets commiseration (8)

9. Wandering around with downgraded goal (7)

10. She is a student with a certain ambience (5)

11. Usually included whereas batteries are not (12)

14. A hole you will find in cooking apples (3)

16. Indescribable and comes out from the night (5)

17. Returned with tree from Zimbabwe yesterday (3)

18. Gregory Saul & I change socially (12)

21. The beginner will get paid to be educated (5)

22. Anna gets a “10” for reception device (7)

23. Toucan is terrified when kept in a container (8)

24. They will inherit the earth if it is OK with you (4)

Down 1. Bird was a duck on fire! (8) 2. Product of the newspaper (5) 4. What’s “Make eyes at” got to do with a positive answer? (3)

5. Where those standing may get their number (7,5)

6. The reason some students are outclassed? (7)

7. Paymasters have no stamps for a period of time (4)

8. Spies looking for the Coca Cola recipe? (6,6)

12. His news may bring him to tears? (5)

13. 100 swab yak which has spine curvature (8)

15. Belong to exercise routine on train, somehow (7)

19. Feeling is not worth much, we hear (5)

20. Will collect suspended particles like a group of birds, reportedly (4)

22. I have heard you will get sick of beer (3)