ACROSS
- 1 Does it ensure teachers get a mixed reception? (11)
- 9 Situation requires swift action - but initially understand really good employers never can yield (7)
- 10 A bit of a magpie, certainly (5)
- 11 Weight on cue (5)
- 12 Fuss after being ripped in storm (7)
- 13 Law, say, every time (6)
- 15 The finder is an intimate acquaintance (6)
- 18 Caterer gets row of houses (7)
- 20 Deadly if at all incomplete (5)
- 22 I rose to get a willow shoot (5)
- 23 Cheerfulness produced by strong drink? (7)
- 24 Turner in supplication (11)
DOWN
- 2 Groan-producer? (5)
- 3 Closely deny including the French rising (7)
- 4 Animal becomes shy having broken toe (6)
- 5 Drinker shows hesitation on the summit (5)
- 6 Cause to work in theatre (7)
- 7 Not working because no more things to do? (3,2,6)
- 8 Not the best as far as pupils go, presumably (6-5)
- 14 He has to fight for work (7)
- 16 Dissipated sea creature caught by the Royal Air Force (7)
- 17 A terse, difficult problem (6)
- 19 Take half a year to get beam in order (5)
- 21 Once and again (5)