Cryptic crossword No 1,250

Across

1. Foolish sort of comedy film shown between TV programmes (11)
2. Climber using a metal spike on the return (5)
3. Choreograph ice skater with the most arthritic joints? (9)
4. Court hearing about a lot of bunk (8)
5. Instrument placed between soldier's cheeks (6)
6. Gripping trowel, finally weed tract of land (4)
7. Amateur poet from Florence pens unorthodox title (10)
8. Passerine from Maine, a nocturnal bird seen in dark (10)
9. Couple's performance of outstanding tango (4)
10. Good-length dance party jams and rock pieces (6)
11. News agency hellion essentially expressed extreme point from the Sun (8)
12. He infiltrates rallies disguised to cause havoc (5,4)
13. Part of plant's shadow (5)
14. Commonwealth citizen residing in suburban glade's highrise (11)

Down

1. Clergyman ignores the Vatican, supported by American high-flyer (6)
2. Spicy stuff hidden in email—lilac ciphertext written backwards (10)
3. Flightless bird circled by dove flying up above (8)
4. Writer's mistakes in great quantity, over 1000 bytes (8)
5. Introduction of English Opening in tournament, perhaps (5)
6. It brought up too much information about Spain's birds (7)
7. Florida charity coming north to illegally dump trash (3-3)
8. Lost boatman brings setter through province (8)
9. Big city banks to manage overhaul of storage site and harbour (10)
10. A unit mustered at outskirts of capital, drilled by alpha marine (8)
11. Dweeb clumsily admitting zero learners show promise (4,4)
12. Magazine personnel live up in Northwest Africa (7)
13. Bronze Age kings honoured principally in Hebrew scriptures (6)
14. Sharks' opponents head to kidnap one in watercraft (3,3)
15. Adjust delivery of a bit of dialogue (5)
16. See 3