Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. One needs it, waiting, for solitaire (8)

4. Former ruler took back the deserters (4)

8. There’s not enough space for a marsupial, in short (3) 9. Form an opinion on one who’ll pass sentence (5)

10. Is able to be a container (3)

11. Bind tag around this American whose name one has forgotten (7)

12. Grant one may give everything and nothing to first wife (5) 13. Can grill cad about what a visitor used to leave (7,4) 17. Wager one will find the Engineers in such a uniform cap (5) 18. Put fifty in a straw hat and get a smoked herring (7)

20. It’s a matter of habit, to take drugs regularly (3)

21. Skill in speaking of nothing risqué (5)

22. Between the occident and the orient there’s nothing but misery (3)

23. Platter for a particular food preparation (4)

24. Such punishment as an NCO could give one (8)

DOWN

1. Pray do turn out a burlesque view of it (6) 2. Klaxon, after twilight begins, has its point (5) 3. Acted out the part of a student officer (5)

5. As cruel as it could be, not being ecclesiastical (7) 6. Fame that devolved on Wren somehow (6)

7. Calm only he might turn into dejection (10) 9. There’s rejoicing in jail, but nothing comes of it (10) 14. Stuffy sort of tune, minus the rest (7)

15. After a loss, subadar may have looked ridiculous (6) 16. Alternatively, a bit of business can be a severe trial (6) 18. A hired assassin to say Well done! to (5)

19. Wrote about this sort of building block (5)