1: Haley's book provides moral support (5)
2: Woman politely restraining cad on pavement (7)
3: In contact with a Georgia institution (7)
4: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)
5: Nothing taken in easing random pains (7)
6: Hesitation before a certain deletion (7)
7: Dispatched boxing champ--outstanding (7)
8: Help out my parched elephant, for example (9)
11: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)
12: Almost as it happens, keeping erratic time to recurrent theme (9)
15: Freedom of action in desert (7)
16: Decrees: 'Limp roses? Off with their heads!' (7)
17: Very slow backtracking through formulaic algebra (7)
18: Hear Native American appeal (3)
19: Attribute for a document copier (7)
20: These often go with crosses but they mean nothing really! (7)
23: Burdened young man with couple of encumbrances (5)
25: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)