CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It’s made to secure article wanted: pony? About a thousand (4,7)

8. Correct-sounding way to be an author (5)

9. Sort of table that may bring one some comfort (7)

10. Money advanced I’m soundly under constraint to supply (7)

11. Change colour, seeing lady’s top in the forest (5)

12. Showy rig has to be adjusted (6)

14. Will run free around the street and go bad (6)

18. Rice dish one might take up with Los Angeles (5)

19. Proceed with such care to issue a warning (7)

21. Noise of crockery coming from cart let loose (7)

23. Suspension of hostilities starts coolness among the faithful (5)

24. She may go to work with a crook (11)

DOWN

1. Digs own form when divining with a rod (7)

2. Rumour one will not speak aloud (7)

3. A bit of a chessman, perhaps (5)

4. Craft that may stay around the church (6)

5. How to raise one out of the Commons (7)

6. Thus faced, like Janus, with duplicity? (3)

7. To which one is fully armed with dentition (5)

13. Will hurry to send the ship to the bottom (7)

15. Words of praise may be paid in subjection (7)

16. Sprinters’ beans (7)

17. It will make it too hot to drive so quickly (6)

18. Chooses ground-breaking implements (5)

20. Out-and-out way to remove top of spread (5)

22. No wise person starts after second summons (3)