Across
Fake spirit — rubbish, so returned (8)
Cold as a bouncer? That's a bit rough (6)
24a
Co-operate with Brand, say, and dance (4,4)
Rabbit's old small home not about to be put on tip (10)
Scuttle made from small dish (6)
One who's resigned at last — if sacked? (8)
Label from opening of stopwatch? (7)
See another way to protect cutting — put in the shade (7)
Relentless Danube flows over a treetop (8)
Hard to get into run-down boat (6)
Player paid journalist to admit pamphlet's overlong (10)
See 10
Creep abandons heroin chic, being noble (6)
Butcher's ex-partner disposes of veal finally (4-4)
Down
Understood there are no bounds to simplicity (8)
24d
Stiff wind is a serious setback (4,4)
The blue bed turned up inside squat (6)
$1,000 seal, please (7)
Working actor's introductions to Independent's crossword puzzle (8)
Drunken sot in passenger seat, traditional victim of a lightning strike? (10)
Light science work by jerks (6)
Music genre behind Nadir (4,6)
Transport lobby? (8)
Great poet's school gets worse (8)
With leader gone, political and social agitation is an issue (7)
Newton and Drake, sadly, were annoying (6)
French from over Channel take off (6)
See 2
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