CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Simply proves what horse float does at Horse of the Year (2,4,2,4)

8. Sort of mining poets can write about (8)

9. No end of a trademark for breakfast food (4)

11. About fifty in alms, maybe — it’s not much (5)

12. A very little company I’d form and keep silent about (7)

13. Fish from river dance needs no nitrogen (4)

15. Start to wake up in prison (4)

19. Compunction felt by some, err though they may (7)

20. A Highland dancer’s shout for illicit whisky (5)

22. Source of sugar that will administer cane, one is told (4)

23. Guest Ron takes out is a supplier of caviar (8)

24. Showing plenty of initiative in green strip development (12) DOWN

2. The thanks one gets in a letter from Greece (5)

3. Mystical, the way it will almost happen to a lieutenant (6)

4. Oil-plant will open as if by magic (6)

5. Hot car I got for a bean (7)

6. He supplies the drinks in March: ten, we ordered (4,8)

7. Think skilled enough for quite a lot (12)

10. A poem that starts off describing Elysium (3)

14. A remark from Conservative taking moment to unravel (7)

16. Attempt a score at Twickenham (3)

17. A rouser of game, at getting in the drink (6)

18. Amulets that do some damage in the Civil Service (6)

21. It may be Indian canoe of a sort (5)