2: For Summits, speak out of order (5)
3: Queen is gaga for horses (7)
4: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)
5: Curious, one bowl holds heroin for compensation (5-2)
6: Effective arrangement by one decent person (1,4,4)
7: Smash top off strange fruit with speed (7)
8: Cancel Times and Enquirer initially (5)
10: War ultimately helps attacks (5)
14: Other way round!, deputy angrily avers (4,5)
16: Concluded that it was indeed the French nobleman (7)
17: Blonde's blemishes reflected (5)
18: Odysseus' first requirement - to catch you like Polyphemus? (3-4)
19: Church conceals torture instrument before king; it could be explosive. (7)
20: Make mistake with a check, largely irregular (7)
21: Neil Armstrong initially brought back extraterrestrial (5)
24: Mom going topless--that's something else (5)