Graduate Test No. 1

My first published puzzle

This puzzle appeared in the University of Toronto alumni magazine, the Graduate, September/October 1979.

Many, if not most, of the clues wouldn't pass muster in one of my crosswords now.

ACROSS

1. Reap rice without rare poem (4)
4. Order in the dictionary (5)
8. In the dim past, one laid it on a bit thick (7)
10. It's obvious that foxes really pant (4-11)
11. Generate ideas among the bells (7)
13. It's bound to be inside the cover (8)
14. Without you, sorrow begins anew each day (7)
15. Signs of learning in a revolution (7)
17. One may shoulder such praise (8)
20. Lure lab assistant to look at its spots (7)
21. Singer on a London newspaper? (5,2,3,5)
22. Thinks about a place to fish (7)
23. Socked it to a dirty car, perhaps (5)
24. And sodium may be found in Sicily (4)

DOWN

2. Scholarly success charged radical emotion (7)
3. Hertz might rent them at this rate (6,3,6)
4. Surround with love in the pen (7)
5. Sound of damage by a mischevous couple (3,4)
6. It starts with a giant satellite, my dear Watson (8)
7. We hear Swiss cheese might come from this land (4)
9. First of three (15)
12. A glee club might wing it (5)
13. Its clean breast may have let down one or the other, we hear (5)
16. Rash fits a radiate creature (8)
17. Curve belongs to a woman when they take a bow (7)
18. Oh, oh! Sent the king home for protection
19. China in Germany reddens (7)
21. Kind letters (4)