CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. It shows the world between covers to the one who held it up (5)

4. Is it odd to be so inquisitive? (7) 8. Producer of power, or a regent thrown out of it (9)

9. Sailor would repeatedly prove to be an unmanageable person (3)

10. Little fishes may swim on around the end of the burn (7)

12. Fruit of tree used to carry sail (4) 14. The gut takes nothing in mixture made with rennet (7)

17. Kind of Lily to wake Robin on being hyphenated (4)

18. Small shark heard of in Barking? (7) 20. It's the type of liquid nourishment that hasn't got a top (3)

21. Clothier is dismissed by machine assembler (9)

23. Each half of the board is edible (7) 24. Order in Ancient Greece to cheat the unendingly wealthy (5)

▶ Down

1. Likely to gainsay am a gent: virtue of putting it about (13)

2. Inner material used for marking the roads (6)

3. Turn sum round, hold nothing and get the better of it (8)

4. Reduction in use of copper on tabletop (3)

5. Very underdone: it is not often one will be so (4)

6. It is spent away from home by the nonclerical (6)

7. The sports car one takes out of a layer almost ten miles up (13)

11. A horse one won't start to pay attention to on the street (5)

13. It whistles a tune to a popular girl (8) 15. Sort of shop that may hold water (6) 16. Auxiliary traffic light one might trifle with (6)

19. Go minutely through a case of honey (4) 22. End of event that is a draw (3)