4  Thing to order for later today (7)

 8  Reverse legislation on monarch's mode of travel (7)

 9  Roughly following top of tree trunk (5)

10 Agree to conceal awful mess in tax calculation (10)

14 To a certain extent at home at opponents' ground (2,1,3)

15 A bit of stew in term time when it's cold (6)

17 Speculate on property in imaginary place (10)

20 Invoiced, we hear, for form of construction (5)

22 Maybe Parson Brown's son was formerly a woman? (7)

23 Rebuffed, beheaded and thrown out (7)

24 Grass from southern border (5)

 1  British member of parliament to take over at Lords (4)

 2  Calm period essential to quell Ulster uprising (4)

 3  Send form to orderly (9)

 4  Identified strange gadget (6)

 5  Catch insects regularly (3)

 6  Secrete weapon in men's clothes (8)

 7  Horses or pigs feet (8)

11 French feudal lords coming from south east with mysterious origins (9)

12 Contend with a belief occasionally appearing on TV (8)

13 Spooner's placed bomb on a major route (4,4)

16 Type of shop that's no longer trading (6)

18 In the morning papers (4)

19 Joint starts to keep needing extensive exercise (4)

21 Spot a short element of code (3)