CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Gave due recognition to its having become worth more (11)

8. It may be a bind, being rendered by vocalist with a lisp (5)

9. January 1st, and Hill is the chap on the door (7)

10. A number joining mad Carroll character for a talk (7)

11. Only half caring to return a metallic mass (5)

12. Picks top off, so gets one in (6) 14. Iron, for example, is jumbled: take no notice (6)

18. There's fish right inside the bird's beak (5)

19. Get nun, with last of cachou, to make an ointment (7)

21. Had pleasure with a girl in need of change (7)

23. It's a bore, and he's a wretch (5) 24. Didn't take so long to ponder being inconsiderate (11)

▶ Down

1. Indefinite or definite, word may consist of many words (7)

2. It takes a professional to be around at trial of wills (7)

3. Crew: some reel, perhaps (5)

4. The hurt is apparent where one finds empanelled member (6)

5. Shading can appear in the sound of a bell (7)

6. Finish one letter when I am little (3) 7. Body starts to rust like this and will break in pieces (5)

13. Though only half taking in fellow-fighter, fox has been sighted (5-2)

15. To be a superintendent is what periscope will enable one to do (7) 16. Wrings out former wrongs in law (7) 17. Sportsman's companion for Lewis to follow (3-3)

18. Pathetic complaint one might expect from the woolly-headed (5)

20. The whole range of the forenoon contained in narrow passage (5)

22. A spout, black and propulsive (3)

▶ Yesterday's solution Across 1. Drown 4. Omnibus 8. Up to the minute 10. Loose 11. Cock 12. Urge 16. Ogled 17. Street corners 19. Distend 20. Demur Down 1. Double-crossed 2. Out 3. Nettle 4. Oberon 5. Nailed 6. Blundered 7. Steeplechaser 9. Backwards 13. Cohere 14. Placid 15. Adored 18. Elm