2: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

9: Special delivery can erase a problem. (9)

10: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

11: Some engines stop working with less maintenance (7)

12: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

14: Doll part, that is (5)

15: Ill-conceived encore run for Edward VIII, say (9)

16: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

17: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

18: Rue loss of rare bird (5)

19: The portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel (7)

21: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

23: Bilbo got misled about a necessary part (9)

24: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

1: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

2: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

3: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

4: Articles in 'Divers Times' (5)

5: Does it take two groups at the pole to produce birds? (4,5)

6: Lick up pal (3)

7: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

8: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

12: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

13: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

14: Shoos stray housecats (6 3)

15: Rambling prattle set up first of many a part (9)

19: Maverick starting to buck in wind (5)

20: Anchors in peat bogs (5)

21: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

22: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).