Extremely dark sweatshirt worn (10)

Soldiers, Italian, following peacekeepers (4)

Teach a lesson in specialist area (10)

Feeling giddy before stakes amassed in sports venue (8,4)

Madness without Suggs at the front? It's meaningless (7)

Twisted conceit: Tolkien's monster's a meanie (7)

Ape with neck out of shape: it's a bone (7)

A little ecstatic at a language that's spoken in Iberia (7)

Son has cloudy disposition in place of learning (6,6)

Actors' performances, amateur, drawn out: pretends to enjoy it (5,5)

Is unable to sermonise (4)

Priest's set off to find relative (10)

Naked, bashful, praiseful verses (4)

Chicken pieces, as seen in steel pan (10)

Begins and gives a speech having consumed one drink (10)

Dash with money from the South to get to Houston? (7)

Initially playing for time, intones instructions (7)

Big beast close to Arctic, barking a kind of oath (11)

In earliest stages (elsewise, romantically), Ireland's name? (4)

Reportedly, players proliferate (4)

Seaways offering larger things to eat (4,7)

Playwright having chicken after Christmas (4,6)

Once again, blows up ten flares ... I digress (10)

Quietly confuses those propelling a boat (7)

Urge to tuck into something sugary that's spicy (7)

Work's over; drink up (4)

A passing diversion, Everyman's beginning to lose freshness (4)