Across
1
Primarily squalid purveyor, illicit vendor? (4)
4
Tiny amount of drink – damn! (4)
8
Mustard on a roll, for a song (6,9)
11
A bounder, the writer describing European universities etc (7)
12
Mo in no need of barista (7)
13
Improved health for hubby? (5,4)
14
Counterpart of red – and of black? (5)
15
Scrap fairy tale with king at the end becoming … dead (5)
16
What boots may be in a different case? (5,4)
19
How a list of Henry’s wives goes, excluding the final queen, OK? (2,2,3)
21
Component of lathe is twitching? I’m sceptical (7)
22
Understood, in a phrase, how a lip-reader describes her work (1,3,4,3,4)
23
Location of unpleasantness on edge of eyelid? (4)
24
Falling over, run into swarm (4)
Down
2
I reopened bananas and showed the way (9)
3
Victor is constant, on time, showing guts (7)
4
Gather intel from – scare the pants off? (7)
5
Catches son, acts the scold (5)
6
Monday rattled one that’s full of beans (6)
7
Place – place to drive from – place to park it? (6)
9
Dubious treat, the eel’s dressed ‘skin’ (11)
10
Everyman’s given a drink at 4; from the outset, Everyman’s making things up (11)
14
One who wrote amusing novels such as Emma, you say? (9)
15
Detective Inspector puts up with absence of intelligence (6)
16
Heavy criticism, lawyers blow a fuse (7)
17
Number-cruncher: fastidious, proverbially patient type accepting unknown number (7)
18
Cockney’s cooking – then … ? (6)
20
… piece of snipe with another bird (5)