Cryptic crossword No 3,848

Across

1. Sanders, for example, bought initially by Sesame Street character? (6)
2. Dread the naked or regularly taken ardour (6)
3. Ancient Brit beginning to enter ancient city cuts figure (7)
4. Phase of male-only drug (5)
5. Perfectly execute twist, extremely breaks 1's finale in a smart way (7)
6. Man-eater may nibble, missing half a leg at first (8)
7. One watching over setter after article (5)
8. Thrash and sob about high-class actor's ending (5)
9. Tilting side to side, legendary bird bordering Kentucky (5)
10. Hesitate to return with quiet darlings and fools (7)
11. Time to give support after removing second prize (8)
12. Demonstrate the way to follow South (4)
13. Jersey, say, in large - I wear coats (6)
14. Locks intermittently hoarier (4)
15. Crown, in Madrid, the blade used in theatre? (7)
16. Identifier of book by Ibsen, with only two thirds of the middle remaining after rearrangement (4)
17. Place for letters to list, perhaps, as rabbi confused about first of niqqud? (6)
18. Understanding exists between you and I (4)

Down

1. Starting late, 60 minutes for you and for me (3)
2. Get in a twist to punk stupidly (4,2)
3. Audibly grieving doctor's acquiring oddly easy formal attire (7,5)
4. Seen strangely in Paris, who saddles horses (7)
5. Observed 7 minus 5? (4)
6. Wife in crop (4)
7. Call of dove, bird with tail clipped (3)
8. Musical orphan I left for princess (4)
9. Tim perfectly embodies mischievous scamp (3)
10. Fruit loops emptied before swine - they're unappreciated (6)
11. Very hot old NY neighbourhood (4)
12. Expression of sincerity arising from initially indistinguishable Penny-wise and Pennywise, say (1,4,2)
13. Try TV, little one, like 1 in 1 9 12 16a, perhaps? (4,4,4)
14. Clown playing piano; It creates suspense (12)
15. See 24d
16. Shifted mortuary table in scientific research chambers (4)
17. Symbol in company stocks (4)
18. Buzzer, live to one's ears (3)