Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. One running certain distance from motorway may lie to right (5)

4. Resides in a different form of wishes (7)

8. Said paper was wrong to do vanishing trick (9)

9. Spirit to catch an animal in (3)

10. Tousle-head went fishing but got lines in a mess (7)

12. An irritating thing to bite in making a benign attempt (4)

14. Was cut off for being too strict on the day (7)

17. Copy Middlesex tail-ender at the very peak (4)

18. The way one says things to CID in transfer (7)

20. Father requires this advantage to make a temporary halt (3)

21. Is a chip to be made out of a nut? (9)

23. Alternatively, needs to change to sign it over (7)

24. Goes off to see acts in the variety theatre (5)

DOWN

1. Forced to ascertain size of it if it’s not off the peg (4,2,7)

2. Not being able to find a clock when it’s getting slower (6)

3. Driven back by steady beat when in the red (8)

4. Stain a coward yellow to show it (3)

5. Kind that will thus decay at losing heart (4)

6. Sounding furious about this sort of toothache (6)

7. No custom is in a form that’s so holy-holy (13)

11. Greatly fear to be right among those departed (5)

13. An inclination to write something Gregorian, say (8)

15. Protect the deaf after a loss and put a stop to it (6)

16. Not to be certain of third turn involving fifth note (6)

19. Pole, even state of pole on board (4)

22. One may understand it to be holy, the Papal Court (3)