CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Patterns have to be worked out in church building (8)

4. Steep cliff carbon forms on rough, hard stone (4)

8. Worn bit of horseplay (3) 9. Punishing the writer with a language first (5)

10. Tax Virginia at end of August (3) 11. Regulation of company torn to pieces by the Left ( 7)

12. Think highly of turn taken in the valley (5)

13. Make a strong protest and name rotters for a change (11)

17. The best way to stuff energy in it (5) 18. The direct way Bumble might take ( 7) 20. Seaweed may have iron in it (3) 21. A bond with former partner in the students' union (5)

22. Boastful talk makes US car go (3) 23. The facts given in record at anniversary (4)

24. Royal female had a line in dressmaking (8)

▶ Down

1. The unfinished Patna grain appears three times (6)

2. Organ misshapen by 22 (5)

3. Board with dials and sheet of glass on laptop (5)

5. Stream it might be virtue to have about a litre of ( 7)

6. Threaten to go out if it carries the water (6)

7. Ingenuity makes sense with endless use of Velcro (10)

9. Acting in prom, forge nothing less (10) 14. Essential bit glowing with heat ( 7) 15. Agreement one will grant one (6) 16. People count cues must be wrong about Poles (6)

18. Pug, or larger breed (5)

19. Fire just one without a top (5) ▶ Yesterday's solution Across 1. Familiars 5. Spa 7. Urge 8. Astonish 10. Artistry 11. Spur 13. Dacoit 15. Florid 18. Firm 19. Grievous 22. Off-white 23. Once 24. Nil 25. Corpulent Down 1. Foulard 2. Might 3. Absorb 4. Soon 5. Slipper 6. Abhor 9. Ossia 12. Fleet 14. Careful 16. Dessert 17. Crater 18. Frown 20. Ounce 21. Chic