8  Smooth club (4)

 9  Execrable acts - it's erotica gone berserk! (10)

10 Smoking murkiness circling pit endlessly (6)

11 Curse former partner fleeing essentially with old banger (8)

12 Set of stories, curiously gloomy about origins of yeomen, tenants and herdsman (9)

14 Good antique riches (4)

15 Venomous creatures in the role of private secretary (4)

16 Weapons of regularly mean males engaged in crafty wiles (9)

20 Slip out holding bits of lunch of thin slice of meat (8)

21 Some utensil very often a term for cutlery (6)

23 One French pair with love finally gone, in middle of angry separation (10)

24 Guide by hand pencil's coloured core (4)

25 Machines for calculating cost of damaged sightseers' car (4,9)

 1  Planet's luxury vehicle principally useful regaling Yankees (7)

 2  Section of Egyptian Ismailia's elevated desert area (5)

 3  Support part of church backing gospel (7)

 4  Lively kindergarten AGM producing material for canteen? (6,9)

 5  Steal the Spanish coin (6)

 6  Mediate to lay to rest affectation (9)

 7  Formally acknowledged eager desire concerning Egypt (7)

13 Strangely honest gap in these plane figures (9)

15 Wenger mostly in charge? This might have dire results (7)

17 Fixes air speed indications (7)

18 Ways to protect footwear with the object of taking up space (7)

19 Policeman's coin (6)

22 Feeling unwell in the French capital of Pas-de-Calais (5)