CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Prodigiously great calm? No: I roast, unfortunately (12)

8. Has not been asked to bind nude in such a fashion (8)

9. Let it stand the collection around the Tate’s opening (4)

11. Medical person the listener finds dull (5)

12. Osier no different for showing sign of wear (7)

13. Be worthy of a near disaster (4)

15. In short, M used to be you (4)

19. Thinks it will happen as one has the baby coming (7)

20. Coach who got the fish wrong (5)

22. It’s a bit of business in Kent (4)

23. Tiny Dickens character backed the age it took to temper it (8)

24. Old battleships showed great fear of ciphers (12)

DOWN

2. Lustrous fur blacked by heralds (5)

3. They were moss-troopers who provided additional clauses (6)

4. Felt want of being born, and died without one (6)

5. Swimmer not, however, responsible for the sea-mew (7)

6. ‘Quartus’ is where the artists hang out (5,7)

7. Added mule he’d trained when confused in thought (12)

10. Food soaked in liquid makes a propitiatory gift (3)

14. There are two materials one can put back (7)

16. It has one spot to finish 14 with (3)

17. There’s nothing Mike’s made of the Innuit (6)

18. On the street get on the telephone to some racehorses (6)

21. A bit of land one might get from a pamphleteer (5)