CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Reel with live potential is rousing (8) 4. Got older part of crude garage put back (4)

8. Fuel that will work with the top off (3) 9. I have to be right first and last if I’m to flow (5)

10. Take a part perhaps that’s a bit of legislation (3)

11. Greed somehow involved the writer as it came out (7)

12. A long look universally enheartened by flimsy material (5)

13. Party men Len turned out for good (11) 17. One held by the man at the range to be the boss (5)

18. How quietly endless variety may be given to the infantryman (7)

20. Part of the shoe in the direction of the Orient (3)

21. It’s just like one to upset the game (5) 22. Admit it now that the first is last (3) 23. At being held by Ambassador will show extreme dislike (4)

24. London thoroughfare taken by newspaperman when marooned (8)

Down

1. Wasn’t peaceful was made to ride around (6)

2. What controls flow in the interval? Velocity! (5)

3. No point in tennis, Rod concluded, being very much liked (5)

5. Unfortunate rag has double conclusion, but not all at once (7)

6. No certainty how one tried awkwardly to contain hydrogen (6)

7. Vessel might possible enable one to get in in bar (10)

9. How could such a scamp tease a hot tea-cake! (10)

14. It’s apparent I had to be included in the occurrence (7)

15. Cripple for a while it’s the whisky (not the whiskey!) (6)

16. Wrote how fenced-in one was (6) 18. Particular stroke at snooker may be a growing thing (5)

19. Nothing in dual form if not sotto voce! (5)

Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Character 5. Tub 7. Ally 8. Grenades 10. Towering 11. Moon 13. Raving 15. Chaser 18. Bolt 19. Cannibal 22. Stallion 23. Drop 24. Lie 25. Residence Down 1. Clatter 2. Allow 3. Throng 4. Rung 5. Tedious 6. Basin 9. Grind 12. Chink 14. Village 16. Relapse 17. Famous 18. Basil 20. Baron 21. Blur