1: Crave to badly ham it up (7)
5: Regarding method of cell division with German concerned with the ear (7)
8: Continual wind up by the French shortstop (7)
9: Prepares this way, dearies (7)
11: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)
12: Raises chickens (about 8) (9)
15: A carriage returned in pieces (5)
16: Made clear how in directions (5)
17: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)
18: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)
20: Cora acts indecisively (7)
21: Little bitty lines on a letter from Athens (7)
24: Dance to old home recording (3 4)
25: Oblique demand for a new church (7)