Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Old-fashioned way one had year of origin ascertained (5) 4. The final one in a postcard to be mouldable (7) 8. Non-union ladies (9)

9. Dye wasn’t fast − or was it? (3)

10. Leave via this exit in the garden (7)

12. Capital turned into endless loss with nothing added (4) 14. No rest a politician might take in America (7)

17. In the OT she could have been hurt by remorse (4) 18. A mark of a wound Mother got around using makeup (7) 20. Mischievous fellow taking part in trim pantaloons (3) 21. Cat trails worked out by family of composers (9) 23. Cupidity as included when bribed (7)

24. The South of France puts an end to the country (5)

DOWN

1. I’d sing confusedly about musical performance that’s upsetting (13)

2. Number to try to make a hit with (6)

3. Find that the record has been finished (8)

4. Mystery writer was also an endless versifier (3)

5. In addition to the half-real, almost a sou (4) 6. Songbird gives one a sore throat (6)

7. Making good of what one has to study, so laid into it maybe (13)

11. The right to a meal perhaps offered by the kingdom (5) 13. Takes advice from expert with diplomat on backstreet (8) 15. The settled market for a U-shaped fastener (6) 16. Stopped death being dealt out when about fifty (6) 19. Makes a request for the chores not to be begun (4)

22. Put on the ends of opera and galliard (3)