NOT SO EASY

ACROSS

1. Something annoying is discovered in shade of meaning (8)

4. Braided button produced from tadpole perhaps? (4)

8. Anaesthetic may make one droop backwards (3)

9. Pub with no end of ale following return of colonel (5)

10. Unhappy sound thus reaching Brideshead (3)

11. Boysinger, enheartened by big number, will shake ... (7)

12 . ... and so sing part of chorale: do you return it? (5)

13. Can't see well how things are decomposed (47)

17. Topless measurement according to scales for number in boat (5)

18. They destroy a youngster coming back in vehicles (7)

20. Faithfully follow steps of one such as setter (3)

21. Pulls up horse in a mire in Sussex (5)

22. Be due to marry, end off: ring first! (3)

23. Had to have been a manufacturer (4)

24. Full of respect, always being involved in accommodation payment (8)

2402 DOWN

1. Deny there are four less in what one may take print from (6)

2. Publish the point in dispute (5)

3. Group of songs related how one might ride (5)

5. It is left reintroducing the team universally included (7)

6. Talk turkey, and eat fast! (6)

7. Toys with object in dramatic presentations (10)

9. Classic work a rightwinger needs for scientific room (10)

14. Took on a funny man s line, in need of change (7)

15. Elms do get blown about on rare occasions (6)

16. Declare when rest has been disturbed (6)

18. Inflection of the verb heard from one speaking (5)

19. What borrower soundly seeks by himself (5)

1. Challenge 5. Cap 7. Alto 8. Blackleg 10. Careless 11. Spin 13. Robbed 15. Floods 18. Club 19. Complain 22. Meditate 23. Fire 24. Car 25. Perchance

1. Chaucer 2. Alter 3. No less 4. Each 5. Calypso 6. Pagan 9. Bleed 12. Slaps 14. Blunder 16. Sincere 17. Porter 18. Comic 20. Alien 21. Step