1: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)
2: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)
4: Montana contract cut back (5)
5: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)
6: Grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)
7: The time before the first woman (3)
8: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)
10: Fast times with company cracked high-strung recruiter (6,5)
11: Give Adele a seat in said fortress (7)
12: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)
14: Cast light upon awfully tired aria (9)
15: Deranged person ate tongue (9)
20: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)
21: Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)
23: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)
24: Scale Ten after taxes (3)