CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Little care forming part of the social system (5,7)

8. Go beyond the mark on top of the threshold (8)

9. Which thing changes in the thaw? (4)

11. It may give one a smack of personal preference (5)

12. Part of dinner service, gold, that’s high and flat (7)

13. Or – as they might be – bow and stroke (4)

15. Make picture a part of what was ahead of the soldier (4)

19. Could be rescued, if one takes weight off (7)

20. Entertainers who might have shot around the South (5)

22. A short but testing event at school (4)

23. A dandy of a sort: did he have tube fare? (8)

24. Gratis, the mental process of rejecting church authority (4-8)

DOWN

2. Pays attention to paper boss when he’s around (5)

3. A pioneer of antiseptic surgery in hospital is terrifying (6)

4. In two ways assist the puppies (6)

5. Manage to get out of the ache I’ve caused (7)

6. Is keen to make such a set in it (12)

7. No help for one making home repairs? (2-2-8)

10. The expected number of strokes to knock up (3)

14. A trade one can organise that will push out in all directions (7)

16. Something that’s done in part of play (3)

17. Request a change of air for the African soldier (6)

18. After demand for quiet, the line of men dwindled (6)

21. The derisive behaviour of NCOS could be about right (5)