CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Water-seeking hill-climbers made a rhyme of it (4,3,4)

8. Where there is fighting one might earn a variation on it (5)

9. Ruins stockings, taking them up on board (7)

10. Neglected to say I’d motet to compose (7)

11. Go out with rod and line in the corner (5)

12. Plan might seem wrong to include the church in it (6)

14. A narrow gorge in Spain north of the USA (6)

18. Force one into service for the newspapers (5)

19. Popular recognition of the CIA might calm disturbance (7)

21. Sallies of the kind that dies without a leader (7)

23. Mediaeval story of a European capitalist (5)

24. Ra-ra skirts one here cleared of mixing it (11)

DOWN

1. Brooking no unfaithfulness by Saul and Joe perhaps (7)

2. Riches one could begin to harvest and entertain in the mind (7)

3. A role adopted by one separated (5)

4. Deceive one that is led up, but due for a change (6)

5. State of the subcontinent leading to an upset (7)

6. Utter falsehood with no end of spleen (3)

7. Heats are being reorganised, so what’s the hurry? (5)

13. A letter one will feel absence of, I’ve concluded (7)

15. Scared of a fat that engulfs me (7)

16. Old social worker in hospital was man with role to play (7)

17. Julius, say, seen as race is thrown (6)

18. He takes up an attitude it’s difficult to find the answer to (5)

20. The graph will make it better around 3rd November (5)

22. Fabulous flier starts recruiting on campus (3)