Cryptic crossword

ACROSS 1. Confess that one will allow one to enter (5)

4. Small restaurant poet has torn apart (3,4)

8. One most upset at getting damp (5)

9. See Moll get tiddly with German wine (7)

10. Has put tea-cake back, and that’s the gist of it (3) 11. With rib over, he finds animal that feeds on grass (9) 12. One is wise to be sort of green (4)

13. Throw it at the dramatis personae (4)

18. Care to run around with a teller of stories (9)

20. Pull it back with this sort of reaction (3)

21. Words of praise with which one might rebut it (7) 22. Large-format book for one to fool around with (5)

23. If it’s concerning the newspapers, restrain it (7) 24. Whose cricket ground is not apostrophised in the Upper House? (5)

DOWN

1. He manages to change a traitor’s mind (13)

2. One’s post from Lamb a GI can sort (7)

3. Irritable, etc, in your archaic setting (6) 4. Tone-colour sounds wooden (6)

5. Attack and make a silly fellow sicken (6)

6. A first word may be nothing more than an imprecation (5) 7. Illustrated talks may be a gift? No: it’s a mess! (13) 14. Give bony and lean gal a run-around (7)

15. Use urn for it if not certain (6)

16. Part of collar that’s turned will almost move backwards (6) 17. As cunning as The Dodger (6)

19. Tightly wave top of crown with prim result (5)