Across
One hat on husband following church party (7)
Distinguished women collecting silver they're awarded (7)
Bridge partners at table drinking pop (4)
Gushing tap at basin for adult inducted in water ceremony? (10)
Breath-sweetener is something nutty, we hear (6)
Finally some money secures protective gear — so workers are properly this? (8)
Chief leader writer, fiery beast (9)
17a
Hard barriers, old and new, within seats (5,5)
See 16
Cook offering horse? Not English, bad! (9)
Unfinished book in which lad engages with computers etc (8)
Sort of deficiency that brings back bitterness in European Union (6)
Language of terrible boaster carrying zero credit (5-5)
Instrument, one featured in short book (4)
Decline right away, leading to death (7)
Savage very dry? Just a bit (7)
Down
English politician on way to board at Heathrow? (7)
Maybe one's time to break for this (5)
A bad, cruel criminal — be off, wicked nobleman! (7)
Catch a cold in a public vehicle — you can count on it! (6)
Macedonian general suffering from Oedipus complex? (9)
Worker in 16, genius at home becoming quiet (7)
Appear in birthday suit and risk boredom? (4,7,2)
What could make adult shortly be led astray? Being this? (9)
A learner falling short — the first person to go under in this world? (7)
News agency man needing extra time to speak again (2-5)
The French fools — they're cut off and wet (7)
Shoddy stuff aboard ship piles up (6)
Voltaire exuding anger could become a sort of green (5)
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