CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Cruel distribution of wealth (5)

4. Indeed, masculine address is wanted (7)

8. An edentate description of an old hag, no longer powerful (9)

9. There’s a fresh sound an animal makes (3)

10. It is compared with a similar donkey (7)

12. It is the beak that must be paid (4)

14. One gets one’s just barren tracts (7)

17. Yellow-sounding part of a dress (4)

18. The market, in one instance, for an aperitif (7)

20. A good deal fell upon Jonah (3)

21. It did make endless sense to one who disagreed (9)

23. Former partner and mud he possibly dug up (7)

24. Boudoir piano has an imposing look (5)

5. It is thus repeatedly neither good nor bad (2-2)

6. Get back profit the Engineers made (6)

7. Lookalike to get together with Edward, able to bend easily (6-7)

11. A vision of what could be made right (5)

13. Bird to top the bill with fish (8)

15. Lightly draw a dramatic scene (6)

16. Came in and moved around the picture-house (6)

19. The first man to be an architectural brother (4)

22. Unhappy that the small advertisements are put out (3)