ACROSS
- 4 Figurative language used in idol worship? (7)
- 8 Making strong demands on team in taste (6)
- 9 Not legally tested? (7)
- 10 Is about transaction showing standards of excellence (6)
- 11 Give ear to silent reform (6)
- 12 Like a buccaneer, for example hijack initially (8)
- 18 Defer mail open to change (8)
- 20 It produces electricity from Monday (6)
- 21 Trivial insult (6)
- 22 Make an appeal thus lawful (7)
- 23 Run one faulty nerve cell (6)
- 24 Stuck in this place with a theologian around (7)
DOWN
- 1 A colt is oddly forbearing in trouble (7)
- 2 Right in leaving out selected passage (7)
- 3 Does he hope for a catch with the right slant? (6)
- 5 Don't care so much, being unthinking (8)
- 6 Has rig-out style which is showy (6)
- 7 Made an awful smell when made to last again (6)
- 13 Suitable broken pot is swallowed by monkey (8)
- 14 Fake produced by blacksmith? (7)
- 15 Giving permission for hire of premises (7)
- 16 Oral saying? (6)
- 17 Dog returning current number (6)
- 19 Bank employee who can't keep a secret? (6)