Weekend Quick Cryptic 90 - Solution

My fellow TimesforTheTimes contributors Phil Jordan, Sawbill and I are continuing to produce Quick Cryptic crosswords to fill the gap left by the Saturday Times not having one. The plan is for us to take turns, publishing one a fortnight, and this week it's Sawbill's turn. 

You can find a link to the crossword here and the answers below. Feel free to leave any comments or questions here as you would do on TfTT. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Before looking at the answers, if you would like some additional help, click the label below.

Hints and tips...

Some hints and tips:

• The college in 20A is not in Oxford or Cambridge.
• In 22A you need to separate "free lunch".
• 7D and 8D are both cryptic definitions.
• In 17D you need to separate "American game".

And click on this label to get the solution.

Solution and explanation of the answers...

Definitions  underlined in bold italics , ( Abc )* indicating anagram of Abc,  {deletions} and [] other indicators.

 
Across
1 Play up your street? (2,3,4,2)
AS YOU LIKE IT – Double definition, the second a cryptic hint.
9 Flag leading to peak (9)
HIGHLIGHT – Double definition
10 Advantage sparrow often displays (3)
PRO – Alternate letters of sPaRrOw [often displays].
11 Nut visiting Cape Canaveral (5)
PECAN – Hidden in [visiting] CaPE CANaveral.
13 Take too long getting one in cricket, say, after six balls. (7)
OVERRUN – OVER (six balls) RUN (a single; one in cricket).
14 Space to go west beyond old National Park (6)
EXMOOR – EX (old), ROOM (space) reversed [going west] -> MOOR.
15 Goddess in Olympia, then another (6)
ATHENA – Hidden in OlympiA THEN Another.
18 Is complimentary about south east Paris for a change (7)
PRAISES – (SE Paris)* [for a change].
20 Dined in famous college, we hear (5)
EATEN – Sounds like ETON (famous college).
21 Way to get nothing in bar (3)
ROD – O (nothing) in RD (road; way).
22 Free lunch with saké drunk (9)
UNSHACKLE – (lunch saké)* [drunk]. No not a “free lunch”. Nice misdirection.
24 When travelling each pair log a group of islands (11)
ARCHIPELAGO – (each pair log)* [travelling].
 
Down
2 Oxygen, for example, rises into sink (3)
SAG -  GAS (oxygen, for example) [rises] -> SAG.
3 Golden light over Florida city (7)
ORLANDO – OR (golden) LAND (light) O (over).
4 Girl swims back with nothing on in lake (6)
LAGOON – GAL (girl) reversed -> LAG, O (nothing) ON.
5 Woman flying a kite ... (5)
KATIE – (a kite)* [flying].
6 ... was tense? (9)
IMPERFECT - a tense.
7 They may have a great deal in store? (11)
SHOPKEEPERS – Cryptic definition.
8 He may aspire to the top of the range? (11)
MOUNTAINEER – Another cryptic definition.
12 Leader in company starts to make money with Queen (9)
COMMANDER – CO (company) [starts to] Make Money, AND (with) ER (Queen).
16 Everybody follows those people on way to Buckingham Palace (3,4)
THE MALL – THEM (those people) ALL (everybody).
17 Finishes drink after American game finally (4,2)
USES UP – US (American) gamE [finally] SUP (drink).
19 Point towards Antarctica? (5)
SOUTH – Double definition
23 Last bit of drink, say, in barrel (3)
KEG – [Last bit of] drinK E.G. (for example; say).