CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. In which to sit and preside (5)

4. Plaice’s battering is out of the ordinary (7)

8. Systematic account of Morgan to hop around in (9)

9. One’s destiny may be put up for auction (3)

10. Went in for the wrong tree, in conclusion (7)

12. At one time the unit contained carbon (4)

14. A drape cut in a right odd fashion (7)

17. Not where one should be serving law-breaker with nothing (1,1,1,1)

18. The insignia of royalty being a large cigar (7)

20. It is not well viewed among millionaires (3)

21. Throw down gauntlet with church and allege North is taken in (9)

23. It never stops at the termimus, the French ship (7)

24. After failing exam try again, but take time off around one (5)

DOWN

1. Serving as a memorial to come: motive, arm-twisting (13)

2. Related by males who get an A in composition (6)

3. Spartan as our orgies may be, but without energy (8)

4. Sere, parched, arid: beginners take waters here (3)

5. Verbal repetition for City district house (4)

6. Is to put ashore where there’s water all round (6)

7. Settle ten-part collection and they will confer privilege (7-6)

11. Put one off Tone on quitting in Red revolution (5)

13. Is not more than one, which is peculiar (8)

15. Cooked, using fuel in part of the garden (6)

16. About to start kneading open tarts with the sides (6)

19. Some land, a hundred square metres round top of common (4)

22. Animal featured in The Glass Menagerie (3)