Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Favourite, if one is in the red, to get terribly frightened (9)

5. Vehicle returned from British motorists' club (3)

7. Grammatical word showing sister to have swallowed nothing (4)

8. Giving rise to a chessman, sing about it (8)

10. Locks away one with a thousand oncers (8)

11. It is brand-new, and it's a flavoursome thing (4)

13. Eat too fast to talk turkey! (6)

15. The nearer one gets to it, the meaner it is (6)

18. Put up for hire: there's nothing in that, as a game manoeuvre (4)

19. Somehow saw, in child's bed, a part of the wall (8)

22. Amuses oneself with the dross pit can supply (8)

23. How to draw an arm or a leg, one is told (4)

24. Finish making entry in the kitchen department (3)

25. It could be argued that it could beat blade to it (9)

DOWN

1. Running one through as the engine is knocking (7)

2. Both umpires needed to show such a blow (5)

3. I am having deep trouble and get in the way (6)

4. It will begin to be understood by one at first light (4)

5. They give the papers notice of their theatre attendance (7)

6. On the one hand, this is one's entitlement (5)

9. It will tarnish lily one had left after giving us up (5)

12. A flat surface that, in short, takes to the air (5)

14. Spent time with books and quarrels when in bed (7)

16. The Sappers could unite with a train of attendants (7)

17. Is able to get cricketer up from Canterbury shortly (6)

18. Franco's father may be a chaplain in the army (5)

20. Move up, or do so down to humble oneself (5)

21. The cowl used by brick-carrier has nothing in it (4)