CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A dozen, if squared, could make such a profit (5)

4. Vast, her potential might be for the gathering (7)

8. Man working with clay lost his head to a fish-eater (5)

9. I get the wrong sense of her, as I’m moving around (7)

10. In the afternoon, apparently, one can have forty winks (3)

11. From Rilke to me, this may express the distance (9)

12. Stick it as a form of punishment (4)

13. Some car’s hooter will scare away the birds (4)

18. From the Stone Age, ethnic oil production (9)

20. It is nothing less than a grammatical word for a sister (3)

21. In wet periods is producing dried fruit (7)

22. Turn for information that may be free at end of paper (5)

23. They cling on to simple change made around end of August (7)

24. One sold out, being thick (5)

DOWN

1. From earth, regulation of air traffic may be seen (6,7)

2. Unharnessing of horses puts on a different aspect of it (7)

3. Don’t work, they say, while the iron is hot (6)

4. Lowly as your servant might have signed himself (6)

5. It makes me sure to take it up again (6)

6. Will turn out, always, on the first Thursday (5)

7. Triangular look of a hat in an election contest (5-8)

14. Had fun, when about fifty? As much as one could hold! (7)

15. Holy way to look for water (6)

16. What coughers suffer with is their coffers, of course (6)

17. Incises a line of twenties (6)

19. There’s nothing I’m up for but a drug (5)