CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Loaf man doesn't live by alone, they say (5)

4. Pretty opulent and fit to be departing (4,3)

8. Go with the current, if you get my meaning (5)

9. Get Genoa up, perhaps, and get going (3,4)

10. Make one cross – saltire, out of season (3)

11. Saint anonymously sent to love (9) 12. Takes something out of wheat supply (4) 13. The kind one will categorise (4) 18. A chemist's workshop takes flower for white gypsum (9)

20. Stray in the summer rain (3) 21. Crew failed to finish, being in wrong end when horse gave voice (7)

22. Parting word, that is, in a semi-dumb situation (5)

23. What's left is back in the red, so use it heartlessly (7)

24. They get together as one 12 Across (5)

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1. Broken rib mended: sane doctor's approach to patient (7,6)

2. It's apparent I had appeared in item on the programme (7)

3. Arrange to take out about four for case in grammar (6)

4. Why lose heart when instead awkward lies are given with sagacity? (6)

5. Hidden when behind schedule with Bible part (6)

6. Alright for a Greek character to have animal (5)

7. What's coin lost down grating done? Collapsed, like plans (6,7)

14. Up to schedule around the East formerly (3-4)

15. Made haste like a line that's been broken? (6)

16. Heavy meal gets party upset (6) 17. Downright bit of fear ran through it (6) 19. Ram that is seen in Latin art (5) ▶ Friday's solution Across 1. Counterfeit 8. Midge 9. Boaters 10. Extreme 11. Trace 12. Eldest 14. Scotch 18. Vista 19. Reports 21. Trample 23. Tosca 24. Short-change Down 1. Compete 2. Updated 3. There 4. Ribbed 5. Elastic 6. Tie 7. Waste 13. Shampoo 15. Turns in 16. Hostage 17. Ardent 18. Vital 20. Patch 22. Ass