Cryptic crossword No 2,506

Across

1. Verified on Twitter, mentioned going round east of France (8)
2. Vocalist singing for money (6)
3. Box or tin opener (5)
4. Wide shot scores point (9)
5. Developing footballer brought into team (7,2)
6. Starts off letting anyone have admin rights – it’s a slippery slope (5)
7. Jam maker who, in France, once started late (6)
8. Before beginning to settle, cry out in pain for ages (7)
9. Teabag possibly supplied by American (within reason) (7)
10. Latin exercises in small, old book recalled by mother (6)
11. Frankfurter’s sure to reach pan where they make yakisoba (5)
12. Epic prose is cryptic but you can see through it (9)
13. Soccer skill shown by left winger with flashy jewellery (9)
14. Snake bit athletes in water (4,4)
15. Put off love by Riviera resort (2,3)
16. Dish ready to be served to the dictator (6)

Down

1. Wedding attendee collects groom’s hat and tie (6)
2. Endlessly frustrate cow’s belly, subjected to chewing inedible herbage? (9)
3. Working? No – retires and finds new place (9)
4. City won by 99, maybe holding record (7)
5. “Rest facility” (toilets) in the centre (5)
6. Poet’s not worthy of Welsh town (5)
7. Cow’s food is right messy – greasy and slimy on top (3,5)
8. Southern babe’s dress is fashionable (6)
9. Sedimentary rock is sublimest on Earth – or one region of it, anyway (9)
10. Stocking filler tip for Santa? (6)
11. Page is not in colour (5)
12. Aristocrat told the truth? (5)
13. Go to meet Tolstoi excitedly – you may have heard of his work? (9)
14. Get wrong design of mid-size empty jug (8)
15. Delegate leads singing in return to form (6)
16. He’s the one reverend coming into power (2,5)