CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Electricity supply has a mathematical function (5)

4. Saying may turn out to be right with bighead (7)

8. One lost to shame has bar to peer around (9)

9. Acquire the second year sheep that comes back (3)

10. Amount that comes out of foul two can commit (7)

12. Smoke stack went by air, one is told (4) 14. It will amaze us if aunts do any different (7)

17. One thing one came across reversing (4)

18. Undergo some form of reward (7)

20. The mischievous fellow has a scoring unit in bridge (3)

21. A piece between the acts with tile under construction (9)

23. Meet needs, for argument's sake, when about to wave fist (7)

24. Things done in proof of home ownership (5) ▶ Down 1. Distinctive characters in trios please them anyhow (13)

2. American deer makes one wait quietly for it to appear (6)

3. Having no home, Rose has lost out (8) 4. Vegetable seed producing fruit without end (3)

5. Play will start quietly in one version (4) 6. Gun may have been held by fairy to swallow one up (6)

7. On the other hand may fret with artist who can't hold catch (13)

11. It has grown crooked, due to injury (5) 13. ‘The good is oft _____ with their bones’ (J Caesar) (8)

15. An autocrat does physical training in error (6)

16. Copper it's dead complicated to bring forward in discussion (6)

19. Fail to make a hit with a lady teacher (4) 22. Small breed of Conservative found right away (3) ▶ Yesterday's solution Across 2. Wedge 5. Same 7. Stab 8. Amateurs 9. Congress 11. Pale 12. Ambassadorial 15. Aged 17. Destroys 19. Corniche 21. Book 22. Stop 23. Dotty Down 1. Cutworm 2. Web 3. Drake 4. Elapsed 5. She 6. Moral 10. Grand 11. Purer 13. Seduced 14. Anybody 16. Groat 18. Sweet 20. Nip 21. Bay