1: Support sign for subordinates (11)
2: Friendly over age of consent? (9)
3: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)
4: In fear of wheat head (3)
5: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)
6: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)
7: Entertain one of nine daughters of Mnemosyne (5)
8: The time before the first woman (3)
11: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)
12: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)
13: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)
16: Delicate stem is enlightening (5,4)
20: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)
22: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)
23: Without it, set call for recompense (3)
24: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)