CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. It gets the bridal party off to a musical start (7,5)

8. Get the better of the six deliveries that arrive (8)

9. Soft drink takes some percolating (4) 11. Phrase with coat of arms to follow car test (5)

12. It was a mistake to print armature with only one a (7)

13. It's the precise moment to arrest one (4) 15. Weaponry as distributed around the Marines (4) 19. Distinguish some of the men no blemish can reveal (7) 20. Fast car reversing gets caught in the rear (5)

22. Give an eye to one's appearance (4)

23. Without remorse I slept: is that wrong? (8)

24. Where one will feel comfortable changing form between houses (4,4,4)

▶ Down 2. It takes place during the seventies (5) 3. A GP may falsify the accounts (6) 4. A more insensitive song, say (6) 5. Bird that will perch with hesitation (7) 6. His dream Tess broke as a principal (12) 7. With which Cromwell governed the federation of Australia (12)

10. How to cook fish when young (3) 14. Comply with letters from NCO (7) 16. Decline to be up before start of breakfast (3)

17. Fine dress fabric possibly made in Rome (6)

18. In fury one saw an apparition (6) 21. The best of it is yellowish-white (5)