Across
8
Plunders shelves where solution half-hidden (8)
9
Sponges cloakroom quickly, without finishing (6)
10
Shanty town in best-loved American city (6)
11
Not hard for the cartel to organise cheese dish (8)
12
Tense to the end, large amounts missing (4)
13
Tiny explosive device? One delivered after the war (4,6)
15
Seem likely to make a reasonable offer (3,4)
16
I feel cold, not half shivering on this? (3,4)
18
Chap finding voyaging at sea hard work (5,5)
19
Vegetable is large – it's frightening (4)
20
After endless hassle the night before, one enters in distress (8)
22
Being forced out of shell contributes to boy's terror (6)
23
See Persian queen reportedly getting a number of winks (6)
24
Fellow handin' out something for plucking (8)
Down
1
Union campaigner messing up gets the bird (8,7)
2
A woman's perfume, 'Repose', that dates from 1953 (6,2,7)
3
Mixing up fruit refuse to pick up barrel held by strap (10)
4
A small part of Christmas scene last to receive credit (7)
5
The Warsaw Pact, for example, left with nothing in years gone by (4)
6
Finish one's sentence, but be unable to move on (4,2,1,4,4)
7
Unusual reproduction of Stonehenge reassembled in European capital (15)
14
Support earth and environment (10)
17
Spot girl in the afternoon, signalling (3,4)
21
Some say a beating? Up here for a flogging (4)