5  Get rid of rubbish tip (4)

 9  Congeal as allies do (5,8)

10 Burden is our responsibility (4)

11 Frighten the French after beginning (7)

13 Give a nudge on time (6)

15 Concealed, Charlie was in pain (6)

18 Latter stages of match to finish with spirit (7)

20 Bird found in afternoon (4)

23 Make sense to rise for an argument? (5,2,6)

24 Not well after finishing off roasted herb (4)

25 Breaking up? Great! (8)

 1  Destroy hope in Canada's heartland (4)

 2  Sadly erring, one monarch quits royal office (5)

 3  Applies lipstick to prepare late meal? Not half! (5,2)

 4  Roundly boo first instrumentalist (6)

 6  Untether peacekeepers meeting problem (7)

 7  Is a warning that wine's about to finish (8)

 8  Uncertain fate of cheese (4)

12 Pacified after program made less stringent (8)

14 Strange dance for weirdo (7)

16 Slattern half-heartedly tidied branches (7)

17 After the staff do another term, finally make changes (6)

19 Attaché to help broadcast (4)

21 Swiss dish restaurants only seem to introduce initially (5)

22 Sang about drawback (4)