CRYPTIC 320

ACROSS

4 It’s over and I’m to point when game (7)

8 Prone to note that one is irreligious (7)

9 Hopefully you are, with this puzzle (7)

10 Tried to get to the Territory with its three points (7)

11 Use any lard to secure the rope (7)

12 It shocks both my father and my best friends (6)

14 A powerful drug to take when ten (6)

18 The Captain is jumpy when using rope (7)

21 It makes me cross when you cut it short (7)

22 One ailment that’s soon spotted (7)

23 I beseech you to enter at once (7)

24 Made watchful and had to alter it for the editor (7)

DOWN

1 Paul sat out in the kitchen (7)

2 Written on board I see and full of sound reasoning (5)

3 Be on side afterwards and with Capone (7)

4 A nuisance and the French take a pounding (6)

5 Nola’s out in the drawing room (5)

6 A time it takes to copy something (7)

7 Encouraged Dee to get on the horse (5)

13 A trip to take me and the bishop on (7)

15 Give ear to the poet in the theatre (7)

16 Gifted tales about the Northern Territory (7)

17 For a long time the editor had them taken out (6)

18 My uncle in America has a degree in dancing (5)

19 I plot and become flighty in so doing (5)

20 To sum up, you’re a snake in the grass (5)