2: 'Pops' is very unhappy in retrospect (5)
5: Helps for a short time (7)
8: Lion's ground meat (5)
9: Officer scratches passageway backing out (7)
11: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).
12: One may be a very long time (3)
13: Most in side swim in Derbys river (9)
15: Grind nail head into wound (5)
16: Big Bird: 'Apologies--getting a late start' (5)
17: State control for Romanians (3,6)
18: Anger that is constraining response (3)
19: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)
21: Deck out detective, putting pants on backwards (5,2)
23: Disturbance is the robbery (5)
24: The rope got twisted by a shrub (3-4)
25: An idea to throw out ring away from home (3,2)