2: Cancelled requirement to carry gun (7)
3: Shepherd, at times, is more abrupt in tone (7)
4: Pound off top of door--what's inside? (5)
5: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)
6: Fancied whos coming to dinner, we hear (7)
7: Hard to comprehend English version if scholars used Latin edition from the South initially (7)
8: We hear you require complete articles for this royal thriller. (7,6)
9: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)
12: Knew a radical in stir (5)
15: Defame how I live in 16-across local (5)
18: Glimpsed middle age, bored (7)
19: You once impounded mutt for UK band (3,4)
21: Senior citizen losing 500 toddlers at sea (7)
22: Mother starts zipping up red kimono after old Polish dance (7)
25: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)