| Clues across |
| 1 | Ron must change medicine (7) |
| 5 | Old English mud formed into shape (7) |
| 9 | Steel worker put curse on stoker (5-10) |
| 10 | Soldier retreats from toilet in cold house (5) |
| 11 | Fords Tees in a rage and chops down all the trees (9) |
| 12 | Sharp fulcrum (5,4) |
| 14 | Risky, whiskery (5) |
| 15 | In the centre of five hundred surrounded by fog (5) |
| 16 | Strangely, rats breed bird (9) |
| 18 | Goatherd, Fascist leader, could become a sponsor (9) |
| 21 | Banished person seen in one-time French island (5) |
| 22 | Actresses earn it, possibly needing no pressing (6-9) |
| 23 | Space for cargo found in final period (7) |
| 24 | Diode is wrongly exposed to halogen (7) |
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| Clues down |
| 1 | Writer’s point – to beat golf club (7) |
| 2 | Attributed to petty thinker: “After opening of shopping mall, dined badly with indefinite number in mess” (5-10) |
| 3 | About start of teatime, Trevor turned up to turn back (9) |
| 4 | Pile found in the Alamo under the fortifications (5) |
| 5 | Dangerous area – where the coal pits are? (9) |
| 6 | Cruel open sore (5) |
| 7 | Servant sitting on creatures – cats and dogs, say (8,7) |
| 8 | Saint and two unknowns come together as a succession of important people (7) |
| 13 | An unknown competitor rode shark 19 (4,5) |
| 14 | Strapped in? 17 send share (9) |
| 15 | Amazing wise men alight on US state (7) |
| 17 | Taken out to dinner, perhaps, and given 1 across (7) |
| 19 | Away from land and disorganised (2,3) |
| 20 | Stir nothing into Swiss potato dish (5) |
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