1: Taking a turn with a maiden over jewellery (7)

5: Fixed penalty for 9 (7)

8: A bleater going kooky within ticker test (9)

10: Beer, fit for a king, is served up (5)

11: Foretold that the wine would be finished (9)

13: Ditch a worker is cutting (9)

15: Material from N.Y. - Long Island (5)

16: Certain tests of integrity after losing face (5)

17: Flat fish and fruit alone (5,4)

18: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

21: Though run over again, MP hasn't died (5)

22: Mink up to ones peepers is said to make one pregnant (9)

23: Hungarian composer on CD extra, perhaps, with Norwegian composer (7)

24: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)

1: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

2: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

3: Coaches of 'Cryptic' curst nits (9)

4: Hold onto string and file (5)

5: Decision tree's unusual goal: mirth? (9)

6: Free trade: highest bird for lowest bill(5)

7: Root for mounting might (3)

9: To initiate into communist units, they carry the vital gas. (3, 5, 5)

12: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

14: Knowing everything, signal Lee frantically (3-6)

15: Sent off info to npr.org? (9)

19: She literally describes high society (5)

20: Padre's sensibly covering attire (5)

22: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)