Quick Clues:

Across

4. Refer to (7)

8. Stirred up (6)

9. Unavailing (7)

10. Perpetrate (6)

11. Tarry (6)

12. Usurp (8)

18. Cloudy (8)

20. Base (6)

21. Red wine (6)

22. Imitate (7)

23. Importance (6)

24. Yield (7)

Down

1. Decisive (7)

2. Digest (7)

3. Needlework (6)

5. Out-of-date (8)

6. Noiseless (6)

7. Diminish (6)

13. Spicy (8)

14. Concentrated

gunfire (7)

15. Law (7)

16. Earlier (6)

17. Unemotional (6)

19. Depended (6)