CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Angry remark, it is designed to make you think (9) 6 Inside arena, humanitarian prophet (5) 9 Arm used in attack? (9,6) 10 Roderick came back with one’s lady (5) 11 Ungraceful eglantine rambling (9) 12 Work before others can play (7) 13 Willingly left (7) 15 Tend railway garden (7) 17 Purge slant in old exam (7) 18 Athletic habit (9) 20 Bird followed by an enormous chap (5) 22 Going round at a greater rate than timekeeper (7,3,5) 23 You and I, within short distance, can be found in Surrey town (5) 24 Rebuke salesman with red hen fluttering (9)

DOWN

1 A lot of dust could disperse (5) 2 Dark blue breakfast preserve? (6,9) 3 Seaside rock? (9) 4 Opening nothing pronouncedly icy in wild fire (7) 5 Hardest to fathom (7) 6 Number that is on this French relative (5) 7 Anticipation v anticipation despite favourable signs (4,7,4) 8 Platypus damaged metronome (9) 12 Bobby studies list (9) 14 Show glass? (9) 16 No-one grows this (7) 17 Clear backlog of sauce in America (7) 19 Kelvin going over brook found some aquatic creatures (5) 21 Like a gearless model? (5)