CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Swift as the ships comprising infantry? (5,2,4)

8. Is up to some of the quality (5)

9. Such a note is not to be assumed (7)

10. So angered, it might make one mad (7)

11. To make the mind take it in, moisten it (5)

12. Poet whose study was out of the rain? (6)

14. Wrote how enclosed one felt, like an animal (6)

18. It could be power (5)

19. I’d a Blue replaced, as can be heard (7)

21. Enlarges on a listed form of it (7)

23. In which beasts lie about liars (5)

24. Cap for one who’s after a buck (11)

DOWN

1. Retrieved the ball from being defiled (7)

2. Query ER might make about one of her officials (7)

3. Hooked claw into cards remaining after deal (5)

4. It wards off the possible need to be in French surroundings (6)

5. It is no longer fashionable for a team to be in the open (7)

6. Set the dogs on to fight a sailor (3)

7. It’s not true that fleas jump around (5)

13. Give one the right to name a book (7)

15. Club a writer can beat (7)

16. Might redress it for a piece of kitchen furniture (7)

17. Doesn’t plough such movements on the field (6)

18. A paragon is a toy version of the real thing (5)

20. Letter from Greece found at river mouth (5)

22. Fifty I had to give for a cap (3)