1 For the material-minded, it's a broken bed with an eccentric front. (7)

 5 Pours out, making quite a fuss when disturbed by the fee involved. (7)

 9 You can put stock in this--it's found near diamond-bearing territory. (7)

10 The counter is entirely in a row. (7)

11 Similarly, how a man of letters conducts himself. (15)

12 Tramps for sale! (7)

13 Sounds bored, but perhaps boded well. (7)

14 Settled around a town. (7)

17 Cotton sheets are kind of average. (7)

20 Question-tracers in surveys of public land. (15)

21 Stimulte in what men live near. (7)

22 Worship sounds like Buddha's jewels (with an oriental slant!). (7)

23 They make a short distance in a boat. (7)

24 They don't rate enough to fly them. (7)

DOWN

 1 Sounds like a cubby-hole in tidy shape. (7)

 2 Bad French song? (7)

 3 House that has had many addresses. (15)

 4 What to feed the monkeys? (7)

 5 Found in buses to Niagara. (7)

 6 Dentists' offices? (7, 8)

 7 Resting easy after getting the point of this? (7)

 8 Fruit trees are. (7)

14 Novel methods of continuation. (7)

15 Sounds like a kind of threat, but helped itself to the answer. (7)

16 Makes mistakes all around, and yet these jobs get done. (7)

17 Proverbially straightforward. (7)

18 A pressing matter. (7)

19 Sealers, often found tight at the best joints. (7)

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