Cryptic crossword No 3,854

Across

1. Sooth fool with delivery of salary (7)
2. Amateur getting into county cricket, starts to tear into prickly types (5)
3. Occasionally reply “Yes, pin up Mr. Paradise” (7)
4. Guns put back in harness by Government for repeating performance (9)
5. Book lists missing section from dodgy AI-slop: gibberish! (14)
6. Start where films might be made (5)
7. Record removal of clothes for content of reel (9)
8. Relating to a track - naturally! (2,6)
9. Spreading aces out leaves sour taste (7)
10. For example, an ‘A’ the newspaper features (8)
11. Shaft expert among examiners (5)
12. Performing song, eat anyway (7)
13. Former journalist with own spirit to let it out (7,7)
14. Middle Eastern has life force after fresh air (5)

Down

1. Vacation spots as fall-back options (7)
2. Brilliant centre for robots beyond Poland for treatment (7)
3. Open University enthralling party (Republican) causing stink (5)
4. Conscious of a commodity (5)
5. Armies twice ignoring directions (twice!) resulting in truce (9)
6. Cuts down low-level journalists (5)
7. Starts off: “Bin it! I ate some sandwiches” (9)
8. Smuggling 200 into inlet for tobacco among friends (5)
9. Place second and confuse grey stud (6,3)
10. Rules of end to herding: sheep downhill then sheep uphill (7)
11. Fart and belch a lot, mostly around dude’s apartment (8,4)
12. Peak wrestling - leave it on! (9)
13. Writes gold, with Troy horse cut (7)
14. To be incredible: be very good about god and faith (6,6)