Thank you strathspey! I'll go with RAIKS for 23a with 24d now being S?A?L - ido think this to be SPALL but I can't find a definition to EXACTLY fit the clue!!!
Thank-you all! It is SCAIL, found it in Chambers Scots Dictionary! I keep forgetting that I have this book and I'm sure I'd finish this flaming Xword sooner if only I'd remember!!