CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Remembrance bloom (5)

4. Hardship may be suffered in such narrow passages (7)

8. How to beat it for a quid (5)

9. Cars one company uses in island in the Med (7)

10. One’s objective may be to finish it (3)

11. Vessel with little displacement, but of service to navigators (9)

12. Tunes that can be self-given with graces (4)

13. Irritation of a she-dog that loses her head (4)

18. Medical man consumed his own degree (9)

20. The fuss with which a party is put together (3)

21. Insurance calculator takes a cut as ray shifts (7)

22. Double that led up to it being changed (5)

23. What motorist does at his front gate as he goes to bed (5,2)

24. Goes on a bike to show what ship does at anchor (5)

DOWN

1. Mingled black-and-white, as contained in a cruet (6-34)

2. The spoils a heartless friend puts beneath him (7)

3. Yes: old though it may be, one sings like a mountaineer (6)

4. Thus prison may fix tenure of land by service (6)

5. Try air out for its scarce quality (6)

6. This car is jaunting with whiskey (5)

7. Marksmen supplying the roast her shops provide (13)

14. Caught by party leader, parted in disarray (7)

15. They rule one’s conduct with alms — or they might (6)

16. A ravine any NCO could negotiate (6)

17. The poster needs adjusting, right? (6)

19. React to change and supply the victuals (5)