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1a
Speed (11)
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9a
Ancestral (anag) — English royal house (9)
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10a
Despicable person (3)
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11a
Measurement around the waist (5)
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13a
Taking everything into account (7)
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14a
Big cats (6)
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15a
Official writer (6)
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18a
Patent medicine (7)
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20a
Fragment (5)
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21a
Polite term of address for a man (3)
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22a
Involving part payment (2,7)
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24a
Causing discouragement (11)
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2d
Chap (3)
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3d
Moorland plant (7)
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4d
Military pageant (6)
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5d
Colin Dexter's fictional detective (5)
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6d
Story (9)
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7d
Acting more from whim than reason — self-insight (anag) (11)
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8d
Whatever happens (2,3,6)
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12d
University administrator — hospital doctor (9)
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16d
Imitator (7)
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17d
Make less effective (6)
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19d
Accommodation (5)
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23d
Vase-like vessel (3)