| Clues down |
| 1 | Cruel Ian’s turned greenish-blue (8) |
| 2 | Man, for instance, seen at end of no-man’s land (6) |
| 3 | Rip chair open and find retainer for locks (4,4) |
| 4 | Instrument to continually dwell on some theme (4) |
| 5 | Made up of tiny pieces, like the Ten Commandments with displaced commas (6) |
| 6 | Drunk real pint – it’s on the inside (8) |
| 7 | Chap, we hear, makes part of ram (6) |
| 13 | Woodland god disturbed tryst (5) |
| 15 | I’ve upset Croat – wearing this? (8) |
| 16 | Goose found clinging to bruiser’s bottom (8) |
| 17 | Worked with feet and tried to get round lad, upset (8) |
| 19 | I weep over Al’s pressure line (6) |
| 20 | Deserved to see composer in Idaho, briefly (6) |
| 22 | Tendon needs operation – it’s not fastened (6) |
| 24 | Yeti turns up – that’s a piece of news! (4) |