CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Deem it capable of providing quite a lot (12)

8. Turncoat might need to change gear (8) 9. Sort of race for accommodation (4) 11. Compulsion to start criticising in warning from golfer (5)

12. Sort of tree nice for planting out (7) 13. It may be the right pretentious air (4) 15. Scottish lawsuit would be sure to provide gratification (4)

19. Princess in Madrid discovered tan if an adjustment was made (7)

20. OT character making a fair point but regularly ignored (5)

22. Not to have been born of woman, a daughter (4)

23. Piety voted out as having one on (8) 24. Around the Sorbonne it's a dead language – mercy! (5,7)

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2. Proprietor produced nothing new at end of a year (5)

3. Clay box potter uses, for example, with rags (6)

4. Infer that Mussolini was half-dead to begin with (6)

5. So malignant, it could be a full version of it (7)

6. Being a host may prove amusing (12) 7. Paid performer for spies, loan being arranged (12)

10. An entity creating small spaces in print (3)

14. In the wrong clef, Ted found he could turn it aside (7)

16. Whatever the number, a lot lose their head (3)

17. A gift the French have, putting the bounder on water there (6)

18. Enjoy taste of what's lemony around a vanilla topping (6)

21. More money is available in a different era (5)