Varsity Cryptic Crossword solutions: Issue 798

Clues
Across
1. Happy, dead content to be able to change! (9)
6. Starts chopping oregano, spinach, salad ingredient (3)
8. Left after quiz, it’s too easy (7)
9. Fruit rat? (5)
10. Proctor alive, dismembered by beast (12)
12. Sounds like filthy place caused eye infection (4)
13. Snakes, not really insects, were Cleopatra’s downfall
17. Support for crazy yokel contest (12)
20. Bishop’s garment is where remit fails
21. A little Eastern European animal (7)
23. Sister is starting, not unusually, novice (3)
24. Spanish sundaes prepared for ballerinas (9)
Down
1. Changes book (4)
2. Within, devil established as king of demons (7)
3. Top copper – when forged might work here? (1,1,1)
4. Body’s cold after curry (6)
5. Dan asleep at sea walk (9)
6. Map out and eviscerate heart with can opener (5)
7. Desert girl with scorn (6)
11. Rovers pending internal financial problem (9)
14. Grunt work – entangled these at the LHC? (7)
15. Shrewdness shown by the Christian Union to schism? Agreed! (6)
16. Cook overheard doing this to eggs (6)
18. Artist loses self sculpting divine being (6)
19. Sets reeling a suffering lass (4)
22. Do drug – sounds like a lot of money? (3)
Congratulations to Jake Choules for being the first to submit the correct solutions.
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