Across
1 Topple record in bout (6)
4 Revolutionary artist with stern passion (6)
9 Prisoners exercise force (9)
10 One assisting abbot earlier (5)
11 Film derived from grand hit, say, had worked (1,4,4,5)
12 Letter, last of sequence by saint in stack (7)
13 Resentment created by faulty information about love (7)
15 Idol in company with time for cigar (7)
17 Finish without large fight (7)
18 Fussy, done with detail (4-10)
21 Dog going round in big rocket (5)
22 Dossier about dodgy scam I copy (9)
23 Talkative, spiteful, interrupted by husband (6)
24 Strain shown by architect connected with church (6)
Down
1 Take off from landing place (4)
2 Calling after drink for end of joke (9)
3 Planet mostly at one concerning aim for population limit (10,5)
4 Cross ground one day, bearing north (7)
5 Remain hard up due to struggle as novelist (6,2,7)
6 Employing some devious ingenuity (5)
7 Led to suffer under sorrowful burden (6)
8 Creep nervously round trap, lifting cover (8)
12 For chance to reform, giving up following trespass (8)
14 Height of delight about English verse (9)
16 Careful — your old-fashioned clothing split (7)
17 Confirm chlorine measurement (6)
19 Soil in shortage lacking depth (5)
20 Border rising involving small network (4)
Published - June 18, 2016 04:05 pm IST