CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Having year of origin ascribed is oldfashioned (5) 4. In a postcard the ultimate one may be moulded ( 7)

8. Single-minded ladies (9)

9. Was fast – or, in the case of dye, wasn't! (3)

10. Such activities may be descriptive of ‘Exit’ ( 7)

12. Capital made out of loss, endlessly compounded with nothing (4)

14. Politician – but not here – might rest on a sort- out ( 7)

17. Remorse of an OT character (4) 18. Makeup used by Mother to get around an old wound ( 7)

20. Being full of mischief, by a whim petulantly revealed (3)

21. Composer owes much to 18, lit at variations (9)

23. Is bribed, as when being involved in cupidity ( 7)

24. Country with American backing and confused state (5)

Down

1. Record at one time rating a loss, which is disturbing (13)

2. Number of a mis-hit: try to get sorted out (6)

3. Find one will turn this to reveal B-side (8)

4. Writer, no end of a versifier! (3) 5. Half-real, thus: that too! (4)

6. The trouble with the throat is, it might fly away (6)

7. Study compact leaderless country for making good of what one has (13) 11. No bogus number for this domain (5) 13. Takes advice when, among young players, one sees sun-burst (8)

15. Pin papers together for the settled market (6)

16. Had to admit let by mistake and got stopped (6)

19. Makes a request for newts in the country (4)

22. All democratic deputy-leaders have more to say (3)