CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It comes in handy for getting a lift (5)

4. Kent MP doing u-turn looks dishevelled (7)

8. The lowest point that can be reached from the drain (5)

9. Accommodation for the lay sisterhood? (3-4)

10. Custom decrees it for you and me to face east (3)

11. Letting the line out for the eel-run, use gin (9)

12. Elongated tooth could be stuck without use of carbon (4)

13. Two district attorneys joining an art movement (4)

18. Isn’t in credit, one might put it, but it’s inherent (9)

20. Disgusted sound Hugo made, nothing less (3)

21. Give it metre to set out for the white ant (7)

22. Foreign currency was not enough for its country of origin (5)

23. Doesn’t give in to stress one suffered (7)

24. Name the letters and it may be cast (5)

DOWN

1. Language Tornado uses? It’s hard to say (6-7)

2. Take off such informal uniform (7)

3. Radiographer’s meal, am I? Rub it out! (6)

4. Rushes about with the minor court officials (6)

5. It was the gutter that was home to the dogs (6)

6. Or aim for one from New Zealand (5)

7. Harp to go: a clip showing features of an area (13)

14. How to laud the goddess of mischief and fawn upon her (7)

15. Pays a call and takes the chair after six (6)

16. Roses one fashions out of willow twigs (6)

17. Laughs with scorn at the way one eats so greedily (6)

19. Come to them to settle dispute as to Hilary and Lent (5)