CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Dud sales area suitable for holding end of line (11)

8. Insect, for example, is not bright to return to it (5)

9. Hats for punters? (7)

10. Most remote pretext, remembered as having held it (7)

11. Discover the whereabouts of a vestige (5)

12. The Spanish can leave descant to the most senior (6)

14. Stop providing nursery facility in school (6)

18. By way of going round the street for the view (5)

19. Commercial traveller has sort-out and gets story (7)

21. Tar loses heart, having more than enough to walk over (7)

23. Opera to be sung by turncoats? (5) 24. 14, say, will alter in order to cheat one (5-6)

Down

1. To take part, arrive holding one's favourite animal (7)

2. When at university was old-fashioned but got modernised (7)

3. Beginning of term, and where we are is where they are (5)

4. Ridiculed for wearing such a jersey? (6) 5. It’s lace put out of shape when stretched! (7)

6. Bow, perhaps, may score equally (3) 7. Make no use of a stew that's been rehashed (5)

13. Milne's bear endlessly bogus to begin with, applied to locks (7)

15. Variety acts at home one hands over to the police (5,2)

16. Who loses head when on the boards? The one that's held (7)

17. Hot on finding a place to retreat to in painting (6)

18. Virginia accepts it that before fifty it's absolutely necessary (5)

20. Not a one on: vastly inferior, and unmended (5)

22. Half to help a donkey (3)