1: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

4: Paradise, perhaps, where rails hang askew (7-2)

7: On the canvas from third strike (3)

8: Perishable candy (7)

11: Real idiot garbled opiniated commentary (9)

12: Still drunk, sings in a light, rhythmic way (5)

13: Group of eight initially outwits coup to enter Tripoli (5)

14: First rate viola arrangement originally in pasta dish (7)

15: Water ceremony or fire in a crisis (7)

17: Bestows clothes (5)

19: Cruel to waste money (5)

21: Boatman doing role sloppily (9)

22: Pair of witnesses' mostly smooth transfer may end with Tony Soprano, possibly (7)

23: Choose to take the top off (3)

24: Food product of the sea - including fish (9)

25: What this puzzle is (3)

1: Object to professional examination (7)

2: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

3: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

4: Get by heroes? It's unlikely (7)

5: Reportedly, looked at sea serpent as exemplar (5)

6: Assistants' crackpot ideas (5)

9: I had left mule, finally, and right loafer (5)

10: See its violent broadcast? (10,3)

16: Satanic personification in 'Anthem A-Gogo' (5)

17: Painting a beard (7)

18: Uncompromising joke about Ms. Hayworth (7)

19: Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5)

20: Show fear when beast appears on popular TV series (5)

23: Inactive side (3)