CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Manufacture of national importance, making locks as well? (3,8) 7. Lengthy acknowledgement of applause used by archers (7)

9. Cutting tool one soundly supplements (4)

11. Company given support by creature with a hood (5)

12. Minds about the South showing such a warm gesture (6)

14. Coal reports are muddled and used by coffee-makers (11)

18. One took the sun by request when in bed (6)

20. Pack member forms part of the church, one is told (5)

22. Lowest division of the whole number of soldiers, say (4)

23. Keeps on at one and quietly steers round it (7)

24. Distinctive character only Pater is capable of writing out (11)

Down

2. How to make one peer without narrowing of one's eyes (7)

3. Girl may have a fresh get-up every day (4)

4. High pressure shown by earth the plough turns up (5)

5. Is not taught soundly to idle (5) 6. It might serve as a reference in the Bible (5)

8. Had offshoots from the trunk perhaps (8) 10. Portion sounds dully painful if one has one's share of it (8)

13. Secretive drunken tinker of Will's (3) 15. Chemical test substance turns green at mixing it (7)

16. Roughly it stands for an attack of 'flu (5)

17. The smallest amount, as is allowed outside (5)

19. A county horse (5)

21. Did a quick turn and behaved like a spider (4)