1: Attentive old bachelor, one who waits on others (9)
2: Weapon company accommodating listener (7)
3: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)
4: Gorilla taking head off at it's base! (3)
5: How Nero holds one in control (5)
6: Loud lot ran out at the head (7)
9: Candy, Rod, Gump all confused (7)
12: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)
14: She plays in a small enclosure on one street (7)
15: Beauty held a label up as being the merest trifle (9)
17: Easily bent out of shape? So smile, silly (7)
19: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)
20: Calculated average time (5)
21: Free trade: highest bird for lowest bill(5)
23: One politician's a brat (3)