CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Adds emphasis to a cute stance maybe (11)

7. Pushes the corrosion in this when one leaves (7)

9. Half the fund the Spanish need for petrol, say (4)

11. For impetus, use the car (5)

12. Point of time of great consequence (6)

14. Doing harm in order to mend it later (11)

18. In Gwent one may have suffered a stab of pain (6)

20. Don’t accept it won’t begin to throw one out (5)

22. Fitting way to encounter it (4)

23. A lottery, too, Lamb wrote about (7)

24. As few lovers as possible are holders of blooms (6,5)

DOWN

2. Gun used in brace of a sort (7)

3. Try one out on the river (4)

4. Discharge previous partner, due for a change (5)

5. Read about dust forming your beginning (5)

6. Schemes of ground pieces to build on (5)

8. How one might travel in a ship to guide the old? (8)

10. It may shed light on name boom is given (8)

13. Mischiefmaker takes 999 quietly (3)

15. Flower can mean a sort of unity (7)

16. An impression to get ready for posting (5)

17. It can be fillet that takes organising (5)

19. May have lied about a standard of perfection (5)

21. Nightlight indicated by an asterisk (4)