1: Not blunt instrument - it has point on front (5)

3: 'True men' is false (9)

8: Pinker and harder to find (5)

9: Glasses for ships (9)

10: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

11: Damage quite an old one. (7)

13: One may be a very long time (3)

14: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

17: Sometimes they mischievously spray-paint footwear, making the top violet (7)

19: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

20: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

23: Remove top substituting pints for cups (5)

24: Scold head of state entertained by Ted Turner? That's most astute! (9)

25: Smoked salmon for the auditor with hair (5)

1: Rolling stones and moss again appear in Milton's work (6,9)

2: Sit and fish (5)

3: Training some smart little monkeys (9)

4: Argument in the meeting (5)

5: Underworld boss can be found among crazy sun-worshippers (7)

6: Model wife, after divorce, gets more than enough (7)

7: Ensign's blathering is beyond Saudi leader with oil deposits (5 3 7)

9: Take Chair in university (3)

12: Bird and man going different ways (9)

15: Top dog in hiding from distemper organisms (7)

16: Try to deny yod is a vowel intrinsically (7)

18: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

21: Polish hollow late Russian coin (5)

22: Flower part to lapse badly (5)