1: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)
 2: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)
 4: Montana contract cut back (5)
 5: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)
 6: Grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)
 7: The time before the first woman (3)
 8: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)
 10: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)
 11: Give Adele a seat in said fortress (7)
 12: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)
 14: Cast light upon awfully tired aria (9)
 15: Deranged person ate tongue (9)
 20: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)
 21: Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)
 23: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)
 24: Scale Ten after taxes (3)