CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Permission to neglect rule India spent so that it could turn (12)

8. Quite certain it's terminal for a battery (8)

9. Eastern European will almost rescue about fifty (4)

11. Begins with nothing, one writes (5) 12. Half chance cure being effected by early writer (7)

13. Set of boxes with egg put by as savings (4)

15. Unruly chit with skin trouble (4) 19. Shelled creature has soul: clam loses a version of it (7)

20. Drive off from parking and dance around (5)

22. He received flood warning and went in for shipbuilding (4)

23. Small farmers using crest for development (8)

24. Practising ringcraft with big Saxon who'd adapted to it (6-6) ▶ Down 2. What childless people don't have to publish (5)

3. Alkali has top distribution (6) 4. Beginner is free of sin, it would seem (6)

5. Ill? Initially I caught it unlawfully (7) 6. Still, it is at no time an article given to fewer (12)

7. Military equipment one has arrangements to meet up with (12) 10. Fodder provided for horses and yaks initially (3)

14. Fruit dried by sun at Los Angeles assembly (7)

16. Not being at home, is dismissed (3) 17. After a loss, Saab took in a vehicle like the Beetle (6)

18. Hyphenated a word in advance? (6) 21. Congratulate oneself on being readmitted by author (5)