CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,386

Across

1 Appearing for trial, drunk is tense (7) 5 Called up, composed (7) 9 Process, in my book, confused a primate (9,6) 10 Bit of theatre’ll entertain this woman (5) 11 Indefinite number diving in seen struggling in Tees, swirling river (9) 12 Easy to get around in one, vehicle brought back by bishop in storm (9) 14 Female fatality in Eliot’s river (5) 15 Slight quarrel about river fish (5) 16 Very close friends, for example, love changes externally (5,4) 18 Editorial about Scottish town preacher (3,6) 21 Find stock after short time (5) 22 Missing trick, conquistador in ring upset Torquemada, perhaps (5,10) 23 Makes alterations to Religious Education classes (7) 24 Needs to be treated by doctor in a city in Saxony (7)

Down

1 Lots consumed by plump teenagers (7)

2 Fetch over boy all treated as an arrogant know-all? (3,6,2,4)

3 Expression used when turning in honourable noble that’s abandoned king (9)

4 Implied historian not with us (5)

5 Get rid of bugs in den, if it’s terribly cold inside (9)

6 On one’s own in plant, bottling nitrogen (5)

7 Assumes fan, streaker, got excited close to end (5,3,7)

8 Daughter on railway on headland shows sign of thirst (7)

13 Head for Bertie’s on arrival, then southern seat of Lord Emsworth (9)

14 Sample speciality – about to indulge to the full when served up (9)

15 Member in rear, mostly, in race (2,5)

17 Bad language – not good to admit to office (5,2)

19 Embarrassed, the Parisian put up senior church member (5)

20 Plump? Here’s a single slice of bread! (5)