CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Bit of trickery in painting if diamonds are shown (8) 4. Last patriot to regret being loyal (4) 8. What you bring finishes a towing-boat (3) 9. The way one goes to tour around the East (5) 10. One's best tip for a time off (3) 11. Cautious use of fur with lace designed for it (7) 12. Clean between teeth when food starts diminution (5) 13. Saying th ewords when giving the sentence (11) 17. Popular expression is one I'd got back with honour (5) 18. Outstanding success, or hit rump made of it (7) 20. Change colour in returning money deposited (3) 21. Fibre only has to be used with nutritional starter (5) 22. With which to write to one's relatives, the first last (3) 23. Memo has been returned by college (4) 24. Sliver of wood with a group that breaks away (8)

Down

1. Thanks to giving up food, make it fit (6) 2. Cat making a row about going first (5) 3. Hard-hearted way to effect cure at fifty (5) 5. A summary hyphenated in weakened health (7) 6. Let the film see the light of former model's stance (6) 7. Highest degree reflected in price of net (10) 9. A subtlety ten firemen are capable of (10) 14. Clothing is right to be left out in sickness (7) 15. He did wrong to go north in concealment (6) 16. Salt dispenser might ask her to change (6) 18. Flower I put out around end of April (5) 19. Nothing in atomiser spray gets damp (5)

Friday's solution

Across 1. Pantaloon 5. Sic 7. Trip 8. Flowered 10. Fuselage 11. Wild 13. Latent 15. Speech 18. Tide 19. Corridor 22. Proposal 23. Knee 24. Yes 25. Tenacious

Down 1. Pitiful 2. Nails 3. Oblige 4. News 5. Survive 6. Coded 9. Plank 12. Sport 14. Tedious 16. Harness 17. Domain 18. Tipsy 20. Dingo 21. Post