CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. It may show one has said No Thanks (11) 8. Sanctimonious and, on ends being removed, perhaps upright (5) 9. Cheers one down? (7)

10. Passes mark showing correctness set awry (7)

11. Being noble, they are upset with the Lords first and last (5)

12. It is not quite enough to talk about throwing event (6)

14. Not conscious of how one might please (6)

18. Male child in charge of sort of boom (5) 19. Choral work is able to give one a childish farewell (7)

21. Pretext remembered as containing the farthest-out (7)

23. Go for time away from service (5) 24. Case of harbour chap given afternoon meal on 2nd July (11)

▶ Down

1. Placed in demi-retirement, is charged with evil (7)

2. Takes a swift look at group-leader with old weapons (7)

3. What borrower soundly seeks to be unaccompanied? (5)

4. Keep making one's point at home with relative, mostly (6)

5. A French gown one will take off (7) 6. Look at the sound the first person singular makes (3)

7. Lent and Ramadan, swift and sure to begin with (5)

13. Nuclear outcome isn't at all plain (7) 15. To arise might mean neat adjustment once the North is lost (7)

16. In getting back up a late arrangement for the tableland (7)

17. Little credit in joint that's material, but what a laugh! (6)

18. Satan initially finding Hades to be something explosive (5)

20. Only mixture made with linen finally made of fibre (5)

22. A bit of a knock is needed to produce a screw-thread (3)