Cryptic crossword No 3,669

Across

1. Weaken sucker strength (3)
2. Puccini opera against the French an accurate representation of reality (2,5)
3. Wine mostly drained, start to inquire about salvation (10)
4. Actress let slip a throaty whir (4,8)
5. Mistake found in 26a redacted (3)
6. Guy beside Hispanic water somewhere in Central America (7)
7. Wild animal brazen, confused and nameless (5)
8. Fragrant clothing nice initially, but lacks long-term attraction (9)
9. First of incendiaries thrown into backup artillery leads to capitulation (12)
10. I notice in conversation East End girl is increasingly frigid (5)
11. Convincing, regressive spokesman is on reflection boring, urbane (10)
12. Starchy sheets hang in passageway (7)
13. Critical opening for surgery? (7)
14. With unlimited video equipment one is able to start to alter genre (9)

Down

1. Naked sailor, reported coward, imprisoned in ship (8)
2. Stephen of Old England or Stephen of New England? (4)
3. Add air of unknowns in edit to a gene (9)
4. Pandemonium when gold goes missing causes collapse (4,4)
5. Losing head in July, admitting cycling rather precariously (10)
6. Playwright a left-winger potentially (4)
7. Key found on desktop oddly easy for prison-breakers (8)
8. Shiv and Tom possibly spiralling (5)
9. A thug looms horribly in places for a scramble? (10)
10. Lightweight description of a lightweight Malbec? (6)
11. Old master returned with variable skill and wrote The Marriage of Figaro (6)
12. Unlikely duo to go beetroot after accident (3,4,2,2,4)
13. Initially, a director asks playwright to comply (5)
14. To some extent Walmart is answer to craftspeople (8)
15. Desire sexual persuasion in Venetian island (6)
16. See 5d