BARE BONES

ACROSS

1 Fancy European Community leading retreat 5 Sport in which Georgia is awarded fine porcelain 8 Place near Brighton student finds poor accommodation 10 Monster therefore comes back 11 Complains at nonsmoker taking silver 12 These are cutting, suggesting pink’s even more outrageous 13 One unit versus a confused lot 14 Gold added on vehicle 15 Poor housing and parking in economic downturn 16 Summit came in the wrong way 18 Expected to take in new bit of beach 19 George has to get chart on variable study of earth 20 Be jealous of English quintet in New York 21 Sudden activity from energy seen in one circuit 22 Follow Susan after two bridge players 23 Opening I shut, cruelly trapping one 24 Transport for pair encompassed by Puritan demand

DOWN

2 Cold congestion cured by experts 3 One department is thoroughly proficient 4 Sparkly bits of river carrying some weight 5 Grand fondness for young dog, a favourite like Sweep (Two words) 6 People as put up by an intelligence organisation 7 Bird, poor thing in a strong wind 9 Front parts of watch in transit south 17 Country type, confused but good inside 18 Bob seen in muddy landscape