CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Interval used to time one's shuffle (8)

4. Lay hands on a change of clothing (4)

8. Marriage portion represented as ‘e’ in Morse code (3)

9. Signal one made in changing road (5)

10. Binding undertaking given for nothing in German car (3)

11. Raises a plus, fit for adaptation (7)

12. Norwegian offers neither alternative to the Southeast (5)

13. Broadcaster may bury one watching TV (11)

17. Piece of music suited to a boat's crew? (5)

18. The ordinary soldier will keep himself to himself (7)

20. Solemn person will make light of the dusk (3)

21. Rivalling one in envy, in general (5)

22. Habit one can take advantage of (3)

23. Slacken off, as in letters it sounds like (4)

24. How an actor speaks when midwife assists mother (8) ▶ Down 1. The base of soda is mud maybe with nothing in it (6)

2. Accommodation for motorists switching to lunar excursion module (5)

3. Network parts new poems (5)

5. Drive back Irish revolution first (7)

6. Man who 24 a hat (6)

7. Contradicting King George, continue to change it (10)

9. Being meditative, behave like Mirror I've followed (10)

14. They sting one that lets ten go free (7)

15. Is glum about alternative, in some confusion (6)

16. Is concerned with tax when MPs are not in session (6)

18. Sort of number to lay a train to (5)

19. It's not chronic, the accent they use in France (5)

▶ Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Frog-march 5. Bow 7. Noes 8. Off and on 10. Abnegate 11. Pith 13. Etched 15. Plague 18. Ails 19. Delegate 22. Printing 23. Coda 24. Car 25. Milk teeth Down 1. Fanfare 2. Ocean 3. Refute 4. Head 5. Budding 6. Winch 9. Agree 12. Sleek 14. Collier 16. Eyewash 17. Kernel 18. Aspic 20. Awoke 21. Stem