1: Goner osculates wildly (4,5)

5: Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

8: Quietly pulls electrical connectors (5)

9: Crush rage created by the additional levy (9)

10: Ideas about teaching assistant marginalia (9)

12: Birds in white trousers (5)

14: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

16: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

17: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

18: Rejecting help, soldiers taking numbers for identification (9)

20: Former husbands surrounding prettier performers (9)

23: How Nero holds one in control (5)

24: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

25: Kowtow endlessly, awfully neglectful (9)

1: Sort of plain fur! (5)

2: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

3: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

4: Wander around inside territory (3)

5: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

6: See, you are a cad. (3)

7: Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9)

9: Blacked out counter-studies about court (7)

11: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

13: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

14: Greenest state with the least elevation (9)

15: Shocking situations, losing first of criminal's footwear (7)

19: Returning sailors receive a penny for singular catch (5)

21: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

22: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

23: Inactive side (3)