The back pages Puzzles

摘要

1 Spooner's mollusc surprises birdies (12) 8 Sham electric cable getting hot instead of cold (4) 9 Tougher central London district gripped by high spirits (7) 11 Whiskeys come up in conversation (4) 12 Is oxygen issue related to deuterium and tritium, perhaps? (8) 15 Like mice carried back in souvenir umbrella (6) 16 Leaves spectacles by pine (6) 18 Exacting 24 feeding Rodents Of Unusual Size, for starters (8) 19 Traditional cosmetic found in knothole, oddly (4) 21 Pitch incorporated bit of poetry (7) 23 Edge to right of second-rate radar image (4) 24 Technician sometimes spotted fish amid ruins of Atlantis (3,9).