SUNDAY TIMES CROSSWORD 4434

[nannakath]

1A "Modernise state that`s backward! --politician (6)
14A Novice could be "colt", yea? (7)
24A It`s unreasonable, wanting the French architectural feature (7)
3D Cheese? Maureen needs to use some up(9)
Thank you friends for any help with these.

[WuTang]

14 Acolyte

[mac44]

14a. acolyte

[WuTang]

1a Revamp

[mac44]

24a. steep le

[Mamyalynne]

3 Mousetrap

[mac44]

3d. mousetrap

[nannakath]

Thank you all-only thing is I have a `d` at the end of `mousetrap`.
For 18A Please stay calm -no need to visit the barber yet! (4,4,4,2) of which I have `hold your hair on`!!!

[Mamyalynne]

keep your hair on

[WuTang]

keep your hair on

[nannakath]

Thank you both-what didn`t I see that? I blame it on watching TV whilst doing the crossword!!!