CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. A getting-together may spoil one in fury (8)

4. Top of the hill – second line (4) 8. Show one agrees to the fellow returning (3)

9. Car control associated with throttle (5) 10. It must be set to catch for cotton machine (3)

11. A wind, but not here, Scotsman will get shortly (7)

12. Put one under at home, Michaelmas being endless (5)

13. Venetian, cricketer-like, can't see a thing (5,2,1,3)

17. In Munich eventually space was found to put statue (5)

18. Forbidding winning service, pull a face (7)

20. You and I have swallowed nothing but misery (3)

21. Thinking power comes from one taking bran about (5)

22. Rock with metal, gold and energy (3) 23. Being cooked, it is finished (4) 24. If deck lacks beginners, not so many show want of spirit (8)

Down

1. In the chemist's, drops the notes (6) 2. Bit of fortification for revolutionary with an afterpart (5)

3. Unhappy sound proceeding from organ (5)

5. For instance, in desert Terriers find occasion for boaters (7)

6. Gain the attempt like in January (6) 7. A telling performance? (10)

9. China had five bob on a classic (5,5) 14. Read here and learn of a loss, etc, unfortunately in it (7)

15. Used molars, for example, dawn breaking (6)

16. Cuts away from one eternally in Nazi force (6)

18. Serious note to be wildly enthusiastic about (5)

19. The French returning to an individual in isolation (5)