Across
8
Beth's in a muddle, having a drink (8)
9
Silver, for example, apparently causing disparity between young and old? (3,3)
10
A heavyweight takes on school (3,3)
11
Lid’s replaced: Jane Austen’s heroine has problems (8)
12
Exceptional luck — all new leading characters have style (4)
13
Red admiral battered the Spanish side (4,6)
15
Making money by creating new words (7)
16
Unfortunately, silt got into part of vocal apparatus (7)
18
Zest for excitement (10)
19
Subsidy lady gets, partly for romantic poem (4)
20
Kirk tees off, with devotees of a TV series (8)
22
Singers with a number of alternatives? (6)
23
Trust with confidence about student over there (4,2)
24
Passion flower opens out, surprisingly, in draughts (8)
Down
1
One dreads having a case of the jitters (1,6,2,6)
2
Keynotes Kent hit differently in this novelty piano solo (6,2,3,4)
3
Travellers’ train set in motion (10)
4
Progress made on top road (7)
5
Security for the Italian undergraduate (4)
6
Mystery surrounding Atlantic island takes shape (7,8)
7
Efficiency personified in tanned gardener (10,5)
14
Runners carry me to new distance recorders (10)
17
A ransom organised for rower (7)
21
One finds no sodium under here off the Scottish coast (4)