Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

6 Foreign at back (5) letter with article 7 Glide along with exceptionally short shirker (6) 9 Talk and nearly reveal slave (7) 10 Kipling’s lone wolf under a stormy lake (5)

11 Time to come back and make an issue (4) 13 Where safari may be organised, but capital of Cameroon, not Sweden? (6) 15 Conservative in charge; a travesty! (5) 16 Cartoon boy with two cans (6) 17 Earpiece cast east (4) 20 Father takes length of the Vatican (5) 22 I’m finished with oil initially and thick paint (7)

23 State there’s fruit on the A2 (6)

24 Travels on a horse unconventionally sired (5)

DOWN

1 Story perhaps for (8) mother,

2 Show insect in river (5)

3 Religious text to keep salmon included (5)

4 Locate animal if eg RAF is scrambled (7)

5 Venerable one to be defined, in part (4)

6 Repeat design after a moment with paper streamers (6,4)

8 Very pale boy in never-ending booze-up (10)

12 Exclude bank, shortly (3) 13 A church expert (3) 14 Puritan club team (8)

15 It could give cover if a leg breaks loudly (3-4) 18 Illuminated outside motorway boundary (5) 19 Odds on container being reject (5) 21 Noisily look for mountain (4)

Both sets of clues fit both grids