Cryptic

ACROSS

4 I go all out to get a century – it’s good thinking! (7)

8 Spooned with a St.

Paul, no less! (7)

9 The minister’s money and how he’ll spend it (7)

10 My little brother has it – his association with the shopkeepers (7)

11 Take heed before your little one becomes a recluse (7)

12 Hey, ho, precious one! (6)

14 They break out right on

top of the remains (6)

18 It’s me in China, working there (7) 21 Characteristically entertaining for your readers (7)

22 About to run and perhaps true to my upbringing (7)

23 He’s the first to have a little

one so unyielding (7)

24 She was the first to rest on a

mountain (7)

DOWN

1 Is true love found where drinkers gather or is it the curves seen there? (7) 2 Although unspoken it is included in the act (5) 3 I see a little bear in the French bedroom (7)

4 Eyed when 14-across got a head transplant (6)

5 You and I have only one leg but we’re so cunning (5)

6 I’ll show him affection for he’s rich, in a manner of speaking (7)

7 Deposit it at the gatekeeper’s cottage (5) 13 Concerned with your uncle being seen at the cattle fodder? (7)

15 Want a date? Then here’s the place for you (7) 16 Why events turn out differently after the sixties (7)

17 Fed up? Then get down and you’ll beat it (6)

18 It means something else

at a minister’s place (5)

19 How to harden yourself at finding such ruin in the east (5)

20 A Spanish-speaking heel (5)