CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Gratifying way a blue pearl’s set out (11)

7. Bounce back to rob nude of it (7)

9. In excess of the six deliveries it takes (4)

11. Over twenty-one, and about right to explode (5)

12. Being left untilled with a wolf left to wander (6)

14. Doing well with our fish: ling, it might be (11)

18. Was a teacher so soundly strung-up? (6)

20. Poisonous use of it cox can sort out (5)

22. Assess it right, and a team will forfeit half (4)

23. Relief in distress perhaps occurs around the turn (7)

24. Irregularity of method, a drawback on the headland (11)

DOWN

2. Generous in its transcription of Braille (7)

3. Do the reverse for one French party (4)

4. It’s even the same upside-down (5)

5. Some people bet it could include Rhode Island (5)

6. Doctor breaking the law, in a manner of speaking (5)

8. Lies one could trust Hun to put about (8)

10. Pitiable tip cheat was able to supply (8)

13. Mine is the stone in the olive (3)

15. It is hurtful to Sioux on resettlement (7)

16. Bad weather of sort that’s variable on 1st May (5)

17. A carpentry joint gets worn around the neck (5)

19. It is beyond the marine to be blue (5)

21. One on drugs may cause rumpus internally (4)