Across
1
Salad of two eggs, thistle? Lose it (3,3,7)
8
Burden hanging over setter and solver (4)
9
Once more assess, leave a true slamming (10)
10
Scrapes together half of single answer (6)
11
Gold ... bunch of wind ... American statesman (8)
12
Essential to Health: roly-poly pudding's #4, after t'ai chi regularly (5,4)
14
Withdrawn, partly open Indian prince (4)
15
US duffer plays green shot loudly (4)
16
Announces cramps; oil massaged (9)
20
Member of Steps, Beatle wife, 60s diva assembled somewhere in C Pacific (8)
21
Some 'hero' haltingly retiring somewhere in Asia (6)
23
Everyman touring Ontario with Italian musician – and another (10)
24
Perhaps Murdoch's one seen in the Eye? (4)
25
Makes progress with clue for 'the rags'? (7,6)
Down
1
The French defending one supporting mob – there's some nerve! (7)
2
Primarily, Thomas Edison's science-advancing, long-standing arch-rival! (5)
3
Sourced in Kandahar is salty, spicy paste (7)
4
Infantrymen guided arrangers in orchestration (9,6)
5
Good to roam freely, reaching farmhouse (6)
6
LA: it's in America, on the Gulf of Mexico (9)
7
Mandarin tests Ms. Thurman (7)
13
Retaliation: what makes 'hit a toff' click!? (3,3,3)
15
Prince topless, tea to get more drawn out (7)
17
A little manic, Ollie Reed portrays man seen with canary (7)
18
Arrived on a little isthmus in Med, took the plunge (7)
19
Actor, regularly loud, very very immodest and egotistical at the outset (6)
22
Hearts of the vain yakuza captured in poetry (5)