CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. January 1st fishing sound associated with keys (8)

4. Physician gets two ducks for entranceway (4)

8. Almost turn back, but it's so difficult to get out of (3)

9. Cut slices with the first bit of veal in mind (5)

10. Was a con-man, whichever way you look at it (3)

11. One doesn't hear its presence (7)

12. Six in one are sheep-like (5) 13. Nothing on top? No idea! (5-6)

17. A bit of ecclesiastical law for a man of the church (5)

18. People may be considered trained to use it (7)

20. Wood seen in reversing Daimler (3) 21. To be a student one must incline to embrace the right (5)

22. All at this, no boats in the harbour: hopelessly lost! (3)

23. Act dumb for last part of the Christmas show (4)

24. Division’s search party out for Ray (8)

Down

1. Being versed in law he may make stir when June is half-gone (6)

2. In S Africa it is indicative of whereabouts at birth (5)

3. It is uttered in Norway right in the middle of a feature (5)

5. Sort of dancing one got from the hourglass? (3-4)

6. To get flushed out of deed that's wrong in the Navy (6)

7. Wind-up of speech for each alternative into a changed form (10)

9. Around the North it's costly to hold worker on and on (10)

14. Note the middle of the sums at least (7)

15. Top of the bottle after end of the glass? What a laugh! (6)

16. Heartless boy soundly balances such secluded approaches (6)

18. One section of the river to arrive at (5) 19. Something middling, one is told, to be prodigal with (5)