CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 TV presenter, person sowing seeds? (11)

9 Bilbo requests cooked seafood broth (7,6)

10 Hats for a pound one tries out (8)

12 Rookie vandalised part of city (4)

14 Publicly declared confinement of Bonnie’s partner (5)

15 Dad returned and concealed garden pest (5)

19 In rogue’s regular intellect (4)

20 Slope where treading is awkward (8)

22 Extinct animal was very big jumper at first (6,7)

24 Firm’s private know-how, with time, ruined cedar trees (5,6)

DOWN

2 Steal or put back book (3)

3 This fights disease, and boy it works! (8)

4 Old garment looks rough without a tank top (6)

5 Begin moving jail (4)

6 Former partner is quite extraordinarily beautiful (9)

7 Opening home for animal (5)

8 Neck of bottle? (5)

11 Bad temper resulting in sick joke? (3,6)

13 Ms Moore appearing in heroic film about plague (8)

16 White lies now you’re inside (5)

17 I’m breaking crown, almost, in foul deeds (6)

18 Very small, but not beginning to get restless (5)

21 Provided food for about fifty then skedaddled (4)

23 Award Robert held (inits)(3)