CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. He's a flirt, and her peril might become apparent (11)

8. Racecourse where a sort of tie was achieved (5)

9. Manages to find ruined castle with nothing in it (7)

10. An exclusive circle of ice to reconstruct (7)

11. Dental material and gold filling for plant (5)

12. How to cut dead and, after a loss, take it off (6)

14. Famine becomes expensive, this being halved (6)

18. To be a student of fifty, go and work for one's money (5)

19. With the shopping in it one may pass on disease (7)

21. Don't give up on quitting person sit around (7)

23. No unknown export could be a figure of speech (5)

24. Undertakings present sire with difficulties (11)

▶ Down

1. Went dancing along quietly, dancer being out of sorts (7)

2. At home to edict when it's put out, is moved to action (7)

3. A player of parts with part of play alternative (5)

4. Edge blunted in model Luddites overturned (6)

5. Be a recipient of vice ere it can change (7)

6. Rubbish is almost torn up (3)

7. Take a hurried sort of shy at it (5)

13. Prisoner held by C—in—C on Victory (7)

15. Devastating as our sin may be, it's acceptable inside (7)

16. Tackle shares distributed around end of session (7)

17. Buyer of provisions might find a trace of him (6)

18. A fall from grace as it leaps about (5)

20. It goes round as chopper goes up (5)

22. Female ruff found in the endless water grass (3)

▶ Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Apple 4. Garnish 8. Appetiser 9. Cut 10. Singers 12. Stir 14. Sticker 17. Tall 18. Stilton 20. Ska 21. Contralto 23. Dessert 24. Eases

Down 1. Anaesthetised 2. Piping 3. Entreaty 4. Gas 5. Rare 6. Incite 7. Heterogeneous 11. Sacks 13. Pedigree 15. Always 16. Stilts 19. Ache 22. Net