CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Dry one up quietly and put one's back up (5)

4. How one looks at the kind wishes being sent (7)

8. With which to hatch Cuban riot maybe (9)

9. Express disapproval at incomplete volume (3)

10. Distorted the way one danced in the 60s (7)

12. A catalogue a poet would be attentive to (4)

14. It's about marriage and the alarm it causes (7)

17. Formerly it got over a quick examination (4)

18. Dog doing part-time duty as soldier (7) 20. Mineral deposit spent in Scandinavia (3)

21. Eternal punishment for the mothercountry (9)

23. Move chess piece back to a place of safety (7)

24. Being under par two get the bird (5)

Down

1. Obligation to get satisfaction from hoop for noun it replaces (5,2,6)

2. Gun's kick could have deprived crocodile of fish (6)

3. Regularly repeated hail, but a different form of it (8)

4. Even the state left the bird to decay (3) 5. Young female soldier in the States given a right and left (4)

6. Bar raised, part being given to a poor player (6)

7. Where gunman practises use of weapon, anger may break out (8,5)

11. General movement by doctor, if starting treatment (5)

13. The way one stands the cost of transport (8)

15. Be willing to take cap, et cetera, the wrong way (6)

16. Is shooting the baking of ceramics in a kiln (6)

19. With which to shape the wood one soundly puts on (4)

22. Witty saying for the test certificate in capitals (3)

Yesterday's solution

Across 2. Farad 5. Hive 7. Ruin 8. Pretence 9. Consults 11. Word 12. Demonstrative 15. Prop 17. Controls 19. Antidote 21. Drub 22. Flay 23. Rhyme Down 1. Glucose 2. Fan 3. Repel 4. Dresser 5. Hie 6. Vicar 10. Stoop 11. Water 13. Succour 14. Velours 16. Renal 18. Needy 20. Icy 21. Due