CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Candy prices differ when there’s a variance of facts (11)

7. Store up some change for the carriage (7)

9. Ornamental fastening one may get in the throat (4)

11. Go to it for some time off (5)

12. So minded not being there and forgetting about it (6)

14. One sort of ode, with reason, arising from different ways of thinking (11)

18. Works hard at what Britons never shall be (6)

20. Prize for a tied result that is returned (5)

22. Food, popularly, one puts away (4)

23. One who washes will make it so (7)

24. For our part, male may need defensive sheeting (6-5)

DOWN

2. As a replacement it’s a den that needs building (7)

3. Large jug that’s fresher without its top (4)

4. Line answering to an equation is not straight (5)

5. Mass quietly moving in a sudden convulsive action (5)

6. An entrance made of stone (5)

8. It’s not been established how it’s taken up over the North repeatedly (8)

10. Sort of bad cat that is surrounded will have to give up office

(8)

13. One may have to fight for seats in the theatre (3)

15. Is opposed to a sating of it (7)

16. Flower held up in secret satisfaction (5)

17. Some fuss the Navy takes to deck it (5)

19. In real terms, it may become different (5)

21. Maple planted out in an acre (4)