Cryptic crossword No 3,798

Across

1. Dessert recovered from anus: I’m a ritualist! (8)
2. Spot some loose ends (3)
3. Brief recovery from salesman before start of operations (4)
4. Cheer side almost accepting bat with missing handle (7)
5. Meeting ‘an exception’, leaders of tribes announced laughing (7)
6. Volunteers with dogs (8)
7. Sounds like you smell a revelation (6)
8. Manipulates applications (4)
9. Emergency the second I ignored bridge in network (10)
10. Note of French caution once (4)
11. Toast to a hen in season (2,4)
12. Imagine I abandoned difficult puzzle (6)
13. Axing special area for men in prison? (6)
14. Gold runs out after silver gone (3)
15. Muddy and frosty cycling back (4)
16. Where to find a plumber undoing greased tap? (5,5)

Down

1. Encourage Led Zeppelin front man’s version of ‘Nightshade’ (8)
2. Nothing for American youth club to get wrong (7)
3. Nepalese purdah overturned to find fruit (6)
4. Reported dam in river (4)
5. One coming from north with no flight initially across Great Britain and N. Ireland (3)
6. Oddly groomed hair, nude posterior (4)
7. Sisyphus rejected portfolio, becoming dropout (6)
8. Like Maria von Trapp’s German overhead pulley ultimately? (10)
9. Spooner‘s “Absolutely vulgar!” riposte to sneezer (5,3)
10. When size is no longer the focus of judgment it used to be (7)
11. Air trip mum’s aborted to deliver publication license (10)
12. Still irons nothing (4,2)
13. Pluck and bin old duck (3)
14. British Agricultural Bureau abandons rhubarb chopping in German region (4)
15. Taxi’s bottom-up, accused of crossing the picket line (4)
16. Realise what’s left after fire beneath enclosure (6)