CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 No Christmas sadly for Cromwell’s lot? Certainly not! (11) 7 Beloved Grace coming to the rescue (7) 8 Someone working for money after end of school or a student? (7) 10 Noble has lots of pounds stashed away (5) 11 Dim sermon about one form of theology (9) 12 Type of transport wanted by negotiators in the capital (7) 14 Be taken in by lustre in drinking parlour (7) 15 A peculiar sect, one cold and austere (7) 18 Someone using bad language in class we are rebuking (7) 20 Entrant is put to work without delay (9) 21 Advance and squat by river (5) 22 Asked for old lover and behaved insincerely (7) 23 What may provide a prod in, nastily (7) 24 Dress of Parisian place of learning – thank you for wearing it (11) DOWN 1 Start of roughness in sea – hesitation for me? (7) 2 Like some sound rising that is to be restricted (5) 3 Administrations processing émigrés (7) 4 Chemicals with aluminium in concealed places (7) 5 See zebra running with energy – it comes over land from the water (3,6) 6 Muslim and nun unexpectedly in significant location (7) 7 Comrade and I set out to bring reform politically (11) 9 Men rue being abused – trade badly paid (11) 13 Purgative has member of medieval sect twitching (9) 16 Foreign duke upset when celebrity’s introduced something saucy (7) 17 Engineers abandoning a derelict broken-down castle? (7) 18 Bad temper the fellow’s revealed in Greek song (7) 19 After break had meal and set out again (7) 21 Animal on view in shop and admired (5)