Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. An infatuation with a drink? That’s soft (5)

4. Nor must it produce its pet cure (7)

8. A turn might be taken by friendly nation, as you’d expect (9)

9. Be greedy as one eats a bit of orange (3)

10. Messenger given our rice to sort out (7)

12. How to vote, parrot-fashion (4)

14. Intermittent flashing light will restrict a horse’s vision (7)

17. Heavily tax the habitual drinker (4)

18. Feeling one might be about to omit it (7)

20. It’s like a moose in a hotel kitchen (3)

21. Dancer using Braille-- an unusual form (9)

23. There’s too much made of fur ties (7)

24. River where a tug turns south (5)

DOWN

1. Cousins making scones in a wakeful state (13)

2. False turn taken, due to losing leader (6)

3. Very nasty to find right bone in a cavity (8)

4. No goals turning up in League first (3)

5. Nothing one could say about bean sauce (4)

6. Bird of prey, or part it may play (6)

7. Those with lust for power could let meal go to madmen (13)

11. Has risen in order to get the soap out (5)

13. Fragrant colour smelling of the rest (8)

15. Showman who touts for a dog (6)

16. Languishing quietly at home with a gin cocktail (6)

19. Cockney tramp will start entertainment with this instrument (4)

22. Much that may come under the auctioneer’s hammer (3)