1: Slows down before a drive in a fast lane (4,5)
2: Flower part to lapse badly (5)
3: Heels were repaired in another place (9)
4: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)
5: Road without a pole (4)
6: Person believing - except for Satanic evil (5)
7: French king rested after a tumble and swaggered (9)
8: Valuable coat of arms positioned (5)
11: Conclude a recitation off-key (11)
14: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)
16: Backward South American city captured by Bill (9)
17: North wounded in action and removed from power (9)
20: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)
21: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)
23: Takes care of ugly dents (5)
25: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)