No 14622, Saturday 25 October 2025, Vidwan

 ACROSS
8 Grubby, trapping feet and body odour, like partly cooked egg! (4-6) SOFT-BOILED {SO{FT}{BO}ILED}
9 Cheer hard to irritate! (4) HAIL {H}{AIL}
10 Get rifle right away and practise firing right! (6) OBTAIN {rOB}{TrAIN}
11 Idyllic beyond love expressed in words (8) PASTORAL {PAST}{ORAL} love?
12 Big Brother's point about sixth sense (6) DESPOT {D{ESP}OT}

13 Most fussy fellow, a duke wastes time (8) FADDIEST {F}{A}{D}{DIES}{T}
15 Dumb, unemployed PI is man who pleases women well! (4) STUD {STUpiD}
16 What you spend in Bangkok action, perhaps for cohabitants (5) BAHTS {BAHTS+ACTION}*=COHABITANTS [CA]
17 Most impressive relation (4) GRAN {GRANd}
18 One new to party's given slack (8) INDOLENT {I}{N}{DO}{LENT}
19 Travelling companion of a performer or a working cast (6) ROADIE {OR A*}{DIE}
20 Fail commercially, avoid Spooner's ban (8) SANCTION Spoonerism of SINK SHUN? not sure the Spoonerism works Spoonerism of Tank Shun.See comments.Still not sure if the Spoonerism works. 
22 Expand like Israel in say 1948 or 1967 (6) DILATE [D&CD] {D{IL}ATE} See comments
23 Carries on and helps one going out for day (4) ADDS {A(-i+D)DS}
24 Check number and trace actively (10) COUNTERACT {COUNT}{TRACE*}

DOWN
1 Questionable ethics of aberrant lads and doubters (6,9) DOUBLE STANDARDS*
2 Fat shopper's card's lost! Has no money! (8,3,4) STRAPPED FOR CASH*
3 Meeting organised about lender England exiled (5,5) ROUND TABLE {ABOUT LENDeR}*

4 Help goofiest nut stupidly saying something without wanting to! (4,2,3,6) SLIP OF THE TONGUE*
5 Wrong side of 15th May, maybe (4) IDES*
6 Yodel interrupted by yell, right inside kitchen area of ship used for target practice (8,7) SHOOTING GALLERY {S{HOOT}ING}{GALLE{R}Y}

7 Last activists managed getting it - important data on population (5,10) VITAL STATISTICS {LAST ACTIVISTS}* over {IT}
14 Slanders late princess with small list of people who made a specific film (10) DISCREDITS {DI}{S}{CREDITS}
21 Some chit chat for long (4) ITCH [T]

REFERENCE LIST

Feet=Ft, Body Odour=BO, Hard=H, Right=R, Sixth sense=ESP(Extra Sensory Perception), Fellow=F, Duke=D, Time=T, New=N, Party=Do, One=I, Day=D, England=E, Late Princess=Di(Princess Diana), Small=S.