Cryptic crossword No 2,470

Across

1. True Brits panic when completely naked before a romantic situation (9)
2. Sound of gas being let out in church is sinful (4)
3. Surf’s up, back in South Melbourne’s outskirts (5)
4. Tiresome letter describing result of break-up? (8)
5. Japanese boomer’s turned back at the first floor (5)
6. Ask me anything about cooking rice for the world’s 14th largest rice producer (7)
7. Political figure promptly changed names (9)
8. Performer of giant leap finally swept away by current in skimpy beachwear (7)
9. Loves covering rhino with cold – not hot – running water (7)
10. Eliot goes for degree in one online marketplace or another (4)
11. Cool drink with salt-fish (5)
12. Current greeting beginning to bother Ian – it’s slimy (9)
13. Animal sound made by half the people next door (5)
14. Top grub, as prepared in fancy eatery (9)
15. Green energy dream crushed, accepting oil in the end (7)
16. Firm beginning to commercialise on Greek island (8)

Down

1. Broadcast from space station European Union launched (5)
2. Yoga person’s surprisingly unhealthy diner (6,5)
3. Entertainment software where “mega-AI” draws in the beginning to reproduce fine art (5,4)
4. Originally travelling around Newcastle, Route 22A maybe leaves it behind (3,4)
5. Boy taking flight but police catching up (5)
6. It author holds up poster and gets into sci-fi film convention (9)
7. Can constituent graduate university wearing skirt back to front? (9)
8. Nevison maybe certain to hold man up (7)
9. Disappearance of a naive troop at sea (11)
10. Spanish island’s commercial domain confined to one area (5)
11. Massage on the back under swaying palm tree (5)
12. Historic record set by freezing artificial intelligence (7)
13. Cherry in the middle after aristocrat drops piece of cake (2-7)
14. Admire and relax clenching muscle (7)