1: Some wear medals when carrying weapons (5)
4: Bird is short distance behind husks of wheat (9)
7: One who gets up part of stairway (5)
8: Romero races around (5)
11: Defeated after losing leader, gets plastered (5)
12: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)
13: I'm running into ill-humored statements (9)
16: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)
17: A period set around one Dostoyevsky character (5)
18: Gray's line about young animals (9)
19: Following conference's end, wild riot is focus of 'Call' published opinion (9)
21: Physician that is right is less interesting (5)
22: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)
23: Check German car ahead of time (5)
24: Dickensian Iron Age? (4,5)
25: In retrospect, sex provided relief for cravings (5)