COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Energetic racket game (6) 4 Write hastily or illegibly (6) 8 Chosen few (5) 9 Bad guy (7) 10 Helicopter (7) 11 Bit, fragment (5) 12 Took action or set off (4, 1, 4) 17 Anxious, tearful (5) 19 Blow up (balloon) (7) 21 Copy the behaviour of (7) 22 Hat edges (5) 23 Agreement ending war etc (6) 24 Apostasy (6)

DOWN

1 Make a rough drawing of (6) 2 Military clothes (7) 3 Brush (the floor) (5) 5 Improvised West Indian folk song (7) 6 Astonish (5) 7 Hang about (6) 9 Having a number of uses (9) 13 ___ from, diminish (7) 14 Carefully look at (7) 15 Attractively old-fashioned (6) 16 Knitted garment (6) 18 Large nail (5) 20 Moral tale (5)