Wordwheel

ACROSS

1. Pay your first subscription: it’s the same for everybody (4,3,4)

8. There’s a craftsman who’s on the square (5)

9. Man of wealth and power can get a man in trouble (7)

10. It’s not legal till one goes round the Channel Islands (7)

11. Having guns to dream about (5)

12. It may be an evil spirit, gin: use it anyhow (6)

14. Caretaker in church will border on rector, initially (6)

18. Order one to wrap cord round it (5)

19. Radioactive metal might ruin human contents (7)

21. Putting an uncle out is not kosher (7)

23. Following in search of raft drifting around the East (5)

24. Recital from France, or MEP making it (11)

DOWN

1. This Jack, taking the gun, is starting too soon (7)

2. It regulates glucose and gives us nil in compound (7)

3. It may be the key to a gin mixer (5)

4. Ill-will shown when I’m put up in Tyne perhaps (6)

5. The cases that go with one drag heavily on marijuana (7)

6. It may snake over the shoulders (3)

7. Staff of life one doesn’t live by alone (5)

13. It isn’t plain that pawnbroker has a right to it (7)

15. Single tabletop may gleam when it’s wet (7)

16. Compunction with which some err maybe (7)

17. Board giving part question, part answer, will disappear (6)

18. Be in two minds, but do it anyhow (5)

20. There’s consternation among several arms manufacturers (5)

22. An award may be one’s lot in life (3)

Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

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