CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Warder and chauffeur take turns to tighten things up (11)

7. In addition, it will help one's cause along (7)

9. Use the plough, it being something that has cash in it (4)

11. State of fright in the fashion of the Jollies (5)

12. Fighters cross when encircled by South African settlers (6) 14. Scoundrels, to impose sanction on household troops! (11)

18. I'd entered a disreputable place to split it apart (6)

20. Sediment for example seen among medical men (5)

22. The head, if accented, may be chiefly liver (4)

23. For each American newspaper boss to be scrutinised (7)

24. What they give may be described as corpuscular (5,6)

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2. Shorten hanging material, making new length (7)

3. Mend hole and get upset about the right to do so (4)

4. His enforced absence places the Italian in a Devon river (5)

5. Bits discarded in dressing some will afford to give up (5)

6. Finish play? Near! (5)

8. In-house one joining plain-clothes branch for killing (8)

10. Vessel is full of holes, or candle might be made from it (8)

13. Image of self will disappear after beginning employment (3)

15. One to attend to the wounded found standing in the kitchen (7)

16. Girl takes gym to make herself fit (5) 17. Privately, like one half-deaf (5)

19. It is essential, after victory, to take Scot off the vermouth (5)

21. Saved panicking Euro-democratic leaders and was quick about it (4) ▶ Friday's solution Across 1. Tingles 5. Swarm 8. Retract 9. Exert 10. Wallpaper 12. Tar 13. Rouse 17. Sit 19. Head start 21. Elude 22. Gas-main 24. Debut 25. Locally Down 1. Thrown 2. Nettled 3. Lea 4. Set-up 5. Sheerlegs 6. Alert 7. Motors 11. Parchment 14. Sea-wall 15. Ascend 16. Stingy 18. Thumb 20. Angel 23. Sic