CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. In this form thin porridge was a weapon in enemy hands (5) 4. Press it out into chevrons (7) 8. Behaving like an antidote to the theatricality of a shopman? (13) 10. Almost pull back in making a flower (5) 11. A compound used for a chimney in Scotland (4) 12. How one may measure flesh for food, one is told (4) 16. Where Romans met the Foreign Office with some spirit (5) 17. Thoughtful way to study paper pattern when about four (13) 19. They were once applied to blood-letting (7) 20. It annoys one, being a bit puerile sometimes (5) DOWN 1. Listless look of Acacia lad can make silk from (13) 2. Animal doesn’t sound as if it’s been used (3) 3. It may annoy one, this snake (6) 4. A spot of trouble one may narrowly get by (6) 5. It is about money of late origin (6) 6. Their base is game, they being inside (9) 7. Tess’s shingles might produce a condition of blindness (13) 9. One cake at a hop? That’s plenty! (9) 13. As he’s far out, it’s starting again (6) 14. They are fabulously sour, being out of reach (6) 15. It’s the devil of a tune that will spoil things (6) 18. Is so chosen, badly, to be off colour (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Piper 4. Scented 8. Numerical 9. Bus 10. Inertia 12. Dean 14. Well met 17. Soap 18. Blunder 20. Egg 21. Transport 23. Sleight 24. Dated Down 1. Pennilessness 2. Pamper 3. Rarities 4. Sac 5. Eels 6. Tablet 7. Disintegrated 11. Ad lib 13. Repulsed 15. Bangle 16. Adroit 19. Stag 22. Apt