CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Bench on the Speaker’s right, where rich deposit is made (8)

4. What a long time it takes as one matures (4)

8. Rubbish put back in store (3)

9. Slant can be level if the French isn’t used (5)

10. One takes it thus amiss, being unwell (3)

11. Where people eat with a whole case of cutlery (7)

12. Is positioned with vision, one is told (5)

13. Is inverted, stern-foremost? (4,2,5)

17. A carrying-chair from the Andes (5)

18. It will stick out as a scheme of something to be done (7)

20. It is no longer fashionable to be dismissed (3)

21. Single figures are subdivisions of a larger body (5)

22. It can hear a bit of corn (3)

23. 8 going back north for the rent (4)

24. Assume small stature and disparage one (8)

DOWN

1. Chit re-issued three times (6)

2. Is gone, like the food in treat, engagingly (5)

3. Standard black of a flier (5)

5. Will shine with a single turn round end of night (7)

6. Cold dishes, as served up by youngsters (6)

7. In which there are forms, and desks too (10)

9. End-of-term activity is going to pieces (8,2)

14. He carries out raid so that he can verify accounts (7)

15. Go along with one coster, sort of (6)

16. To have no intake will look hard, when about five (6)

18. In the first place, one will lay a train to it (5)

19. Leave of absence from regatta Exeter gave up (5)