Cryptic crossword No 2,999

Across

1. Music at bedtime is all blue, sadly (9)
2. Tense after bars (formerly men-only) exclude European and old Northerner (7)
3. Bower provided backsliding theologian the beginnings of legitimate escape route (7)
4. Eccentric home vet, no travelling (2,3,4)
5. Alternatively, from the rear, uncover ass and mesh bloomers (5)
6. Argues back without a worry (6)
7. Short man consumes contents of dish, finally replete - he doesn’t like to share! (5)
8. Decrees hospital attendants must give up rest (6)
9. Filed past soldier, half-hearted action (7)
10. American college medical careers admired (9)
11. Animals travelled on new, empty trains (7)
12. Sounds like venison - maybe it is? (5)
13. Cockney word for tit, say (5-4)
14. Traditionally, the way to marriage is getting into beer (5)
15. Birds short of time with seconds to escape (6)
16. Right now, or a time in the past  (2,4)

Down

1. Strangely ominous leaving UK’s largest university a simpleton (5)
2. Juvenile spring elk eats only every now and then (6)
3. Oddly LA is not quite right for wife (3,4)
4. Avoids those with bills (5)
5. Call about small girl’s expulsion (9)
6. Dee river sluices cleared pressure (6)
7. Quietly hugs, relieving cold after-effects of a shower (7)
8. Had mixed, but not at first (5)
9. Cheat and run away - now! (6)
10. Extra factor in feud is erroneously rejected (7)
11. Icy dew and a common herb picked up for poetic spell (5,4)
12. Most relied on accurate writing (5-4)
13. Iconic Christmas singer created calm for Spooner (9)
14. Dance and sport degree (5)
15. Memorable expressions plastered on glass (7)
16. 1D on hot Mr Jones, from bottom up  (6)