Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Was a throw-away worn over the shoulder? (5)
4. He doesn’t hold the established view that the rice is wild (7)
8. A French one on: is a back-street for card-carrying members? (9)
9. He’s the fellow to put something on (3)
10. Made a roving search and got cleaned out (7)
12. The last to get the third ahead is long, thin and wooden (4)
14. Final comedown in the theatre (7)
17. A bloke who had a book that this man hawked around? (4)
18. The very latest news, that one is least able to grasp? (7)
20. Where refreshment may be got at the wicket, begin to negotiate (3)
21. Singer opposed to a lot of change (9)
23. What’s worn by male customer getting arm in? (7)
24. Categorises the athletic pursuits quietly excluded (5)
DOWN
1. Critical examination of black music looking for something new? (4-9)
2. Complete agreement achieved by us in no disagreement (6)
3. Liberal transmitter of heredity with sour potential (8)
4. Is not one of the have-nots involved in high aspirations? (3)
5. File snake right ahead (4)
6. Move a little way (6)
7. Interpretations that may have been piled together (13)
11. Sort of treat that’s self-financing: double it? Nonsense! (5)
13. Ancient inhabitant of Scotland sure to change the images (8)
15. Style of a girl taken in by a man’s address (6)
16. It may hold a lot of wine or a little salt (6)
19. Stomach expanding may reveal something hurtful (4)
22. Use needles, one hears, for what isn’t wanted ahead (3)