CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. In afterthought, a vessel appears as one leaves vehicle (5)

4. Is involved in relaxation periods and doesn't give in (7)

8. How to act as reporter with story that may do for spy (5)

9. Return of decay, true to form, with infliction of anguish (7)

10. The container one will soundly deserve (3)

11. Horn dug out? Go back for the aardvark (6-3)

12. More recent loss of head that may hold water (4)

13. What building designer begins with a feature with keystone? (4)

18. Checks the others, and showers (9) 20. Stable mother may keep back by bank (3)

21. Or, in changing times, supply a sort of lock (7)

22. A goddess of inspiration to a poet might divert one (5)

23. Cups set at variance by one thought to be guilty (7)

24. Rifles, we hear, such things as took pluck (5)

Down

1. They go around the output of a studio (7,6)

2. Retaliation, for instance: at no time is it to be given up (7)

3. Spray-like ornaments for a precise moralist in craft (6)

4. There's no start to the speech one will allowance out (6)

5. Season with touch of salt, touch of pepper, and draw circle (6)

6. Direction that's shut out with nothing in it (5)

7. Extravagant nutcrackers with which Reg smashed elm? (13)

14. For a second time be sceptical of such field-work (7)

15. Say nice things about one, ripe as maybe (6)

16. Is getting up fast and saying nothing (6)

17. Lisa, upset about South Africa, will go in to the attack (6)

19. Bad places thus curtails repose (5)