GENERAL CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Cookery instructions (6)

4. Thing aimed at (6) 9. Schoolmaster (3)

10. Put into slanting type (9) 11. Memoir of antiquity (5) 12. Underground fungus; rich sweetmeat (7)

14. Large sums treated as if of no real value (8,5)

17. Idle, wild fancy (7)

18. Point opposite zenith (5)

20. Ledge in library (9)

22. By way of (3)

23. A puzzle (6)

24. Zigzag downhill ski run (6) ▶ Down 1. Conductor’s platform (7)

2. Reef substance (5)

3. A fundamental truth (9) 5. French friend (3) 6. Imaginary beast, part lion, part eagle (7)

7. Motif (5)

8. Having turrets and battlements (11) 13. Regardless of (9)

15. Capital of Kenya (7)

16. Outer tapering beam on mast (4-3) 17. Wire; type of stitch (5)

19. Satan (5)

21. Arithmetic problem (3)