CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

What cook may do to joint, sewer may do to material (5) He’s monstrous, and there’s nothing will make Reg change (4) A ring given to people as a sign (4)

Make liar sing: ‘They fence me in’ (8)

Easily taken in by the bulge ill-distributed (8) Underground workings of explosive laid at sea (4)

The state the East has when in the red may be renewed (13) It isn’t so much a word of subtraction (4)

Is remaining right inside, or is wandering off (8)

He is a man who is perhaps crooked (8)

Young creature with a following in the West Indies (4) Loyal toast begins on the street in France (4)

Oliver would call for card to be dealt face-up (5)

Work out how one will arrive, only to be put inside (7) Prohibition applies to three-quarters of the musicians (3) There’s little in the way of vegetation, so clean it (5)

Dive over a tangled net, as is plain (7)

The redbreast neither started nor ended with a sash (3) Daughter in tragedy, for example, raced around (5)

How one views one’s handsomeness (5)

There’s nothing to do up in my setting, blowing hot and cold

(5)

(7)

Is provided with hair and turned over, of course (7) Raise one from the common state of Noel and Ben, perhaps

Extraterrestrial approaching woman might put her out (5) Air I’d arranged with some lines from the circle (5) Dish for 19 to find in happier situation (3)

Make less of a rake-off (3)

1. Proliferates 8. Insecure 9. Spae

11. Style 12. Ravioli 13. Mime 15. Peal 19. Narwhal 20. Orbit 22. Trey

23. Stagnate 24. Deteriorates

2. Rusty 3. Lackey 4. Furore 5. Top-hole 6. Specialities

7. Disseminated 10. Ave 14. Mordent 16. Shy 17. Blotto 18. Loggia 21. Blaze