CROSSWORD

Clues across

5. Steady couple (5) 6. Personal support is back in time for port (7) 8. Extravagant worker on leave going around globe (10) 9. Nil value initially announced yet we see resentment (4) 10. Snuggle down in the cleanest leaves (6) 12. Artistic medium lit piano creatively (3,5) 13. Get past the worst, not her current disorder (4,3,6) 16. Just a shade inexperienced? Sign here, stupid (8) 19. Catholic doing wrong, writing a computer program (6) 20. Joker follows trump opening, the fool (4) 21. A source of oil once where lamps could be made from it (5,5) 23. Presents put on broken seat (7) 24. Send payment for watch that runs in reverse (5)

Clues down

1. Musical set in Thai resort (4) 2. Retiring as it turned up inside not long ago (8) 3. Cruel bishop with monotonous routine imposed on a Latin (6) 4. Gave notice as quartet announced hostilities with unsatisfactory end (10) 5. Wild beast traps bullock in an advantageous position (3,4) 6. Shore leave he’d arranged when madly in love (4,4,5) 7. Greedily eat a bird (5) 11. Bugger up internet, making it thinner (10) 14. Put little time into composition for encore again (4,4) 15. Lock with a wave (7) 17. Took a bicycle, I heard, and used a dinghy (5) 18. Unit is mobile but unmoved (2-4) 22. Where you live till about the first of March (4)