1.  2.   3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  
  g   g g   g   g   g   g   g
8.       g 9.        
  g   g g   g   g   g   g   g
10.    g 11.           
  g   g g   g   g g g   g   g
12.         g 13.   14.  15.
  g   g g   g g g   g g   g  
16. 17.  18.    g 19.        
g   g   g g g   g   g g   g  
20.     21.       g 22.   
g   g   g   g   g   g g   g  
23.         g 24.      
g   g   g   g   g   g g   g  
25.               

ACROSS

1. Big vessel in messy pantry - your realm! (9,6)

8. Breaking parts of 19-Across (6)

9. Gifts from Big 'S', we hear (8)

10. Used in pavlovas? (3)

11. Arise, arise! Embrace dull leadership and fit the norm! (11)

12. Requests between French and top six leaders (8)

13. Fashion Street is humble (6)

16,19. 25-Across attendees very big with one clothing item: no right to useful tough tissue (6,8)

20. Stage musical lively, but time to replace central character with some surgery (11)

22. Indian state reportedly a keen one (3)

23. Holy raid done badly (8)

24. Kent romped on without Don, or Ken, or the "Furnace Blaster" (6)

25. Contrived scenes for creeps? (5,10)

DOWN

1. Tore plume wildly from remnants of ancient life (9)

2. Thrashed a meek animal on a heartless steed (9)

3. Ending - that of day - lull even (9)

4. Yields of ore (not zero) before periods of sacrafice (7)

5. Big vessel in tea or table setting (5)

6. Ted about to split - showed a distinct tendency (7)

7. Yields not, my mistress, confused without my masculine leadership (7)

13. Weird, large mite - 5m x 10m x 20m (9)

14. Enthusiast seen amongst greener gum, enthralled (9)

15. Chat with dinner among 10-n,10-n,10-n (4-1-4)

17. Even up - let Rio cry after measure of ruler (7)

18. Raids on characters prepared for raids (7)

19. Olive dining provides with wordly look (5-2)

21. 100,99,... boost! (5)