Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 01/04/15

ACROSS

1 Is it applied to winter sores? (4,5)

6 Snow blocked building (5)

9 Go away without permission to Paris, say (4,6,5)

10 Lift up to an unending indefinite height (5)

11 Kate remarkably was successful at party on martial art (3,4,2)

12 A big lie (7)

13 Primate took dress out of coal-scuttle (7)

15 Shot Leo coming from the country (7)

17 Royal house or castle (7)

18 I’ll vary it developing in a small way (9)

20 Link sheep that is included (3,2)

22 It’s amazing that mum’s lad is the one who builds the statues (10,5)

23 Part of procedure readily accepted by German painter (5)

24 Decree one should enter artillery (9)

DOWN

1 Capture animal on church (5)

2 Linked grandiose monstrosity that had been dressed up flamboyantly (4,1,4,6)

3 Drink up endlessly grounds first from percolator (6,3)

4 Person choosing to be at cross-purposes? (7)

5 Clansman and little Elizabeth play (7)

6 Home rule relatively speaking (2-3)

7 What to do at school, realise you should not have done it (5,4,6)

8 Ponder o’er new spaced-out formation (4,5)

12 We will go with Timothy and Edgar when it is opportune (4-5)

14 Missile fellow had after short time (9)

16 Shakespearean in Florida (7)

17 Capricious course taken over part of town (7)

19 Liz, Miranda etc went round port in Turkey (5)

21 Author takes this French money (5)