CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. My star: she is a cause of general emotional outbreak (4,8)

8. May be loved, going out abroad with the French (8)

9. Ejected spittle in a petty quarrel (4)

11. Room beneath the room for cat it replaces (5)

12. Obsolete tour now to be arranged (7)

13. Put it out that it’s back on the hour (4)

15. It isn’t so much a bit of a blessing (4)

19. Admitted the pound we had in change (5,2)

20. Force ten will try to take it by assault (5)

22. Be guided to a target in the mother-country (4)

23. Greek capitalist has given inn a heat to sort out (8)

24. Is exposing one to scandal by making concessions (12) DOWN

2. It is roughly around (5)

3. It stiffens the laundry, so much formality (6)

4. Saffron may make it cowardly (6)

5. Censure one over pre-arrangement (7)

6. This means not to be upset by one’s being amazed (12)

7. Disastrous way a feline gets past choir (12)

10. Letter from Greece, and when it’s expected to come (3)

14. Smallest quantity in a note, rum right away (7)

16. Put on a direct debit (3)

17. Spit must turn up somehow (6)

18. Flowers can be braided in a tress (6)

21. Vegetable put on when no one turns up (5)