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Cryptic crossword #01

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Across

  1. Girl at school with Fitzgerald novel (6)
  2. Escaped wild rant on endless tour (6)
  3. Decentralized arbor holds diamond and spirit (5)
  4. Plain and close-to-incompetent idiot has monument (9)
  5. Layout of quay's boundaries has insides strewn about (6)
  6. Before time, cutting through back road was one who attacks others (8)
  7. Circulating circumcenter without rum is odd (9)
  8. Crazy, half-unstable! (4)
  9. Lightest red ink is missing, causing annoyance (4)
  10. Proof that tent hides rotten meats (9)
  11. Gainsaying fool! Only walls can imprison Christ! (8)
  12. Fit together cleanly with regular openings (6)
  13. Spirit eating twisted pastries of high quality (5-4)
  14. Orally request decoding device to reveal encoding (5)
  15. Mind you, going around church in addition to priest seems extreme (6)
  16. My accommodating daughter is incapacitated by injury somewhat (6)

Down

  1. Sound briefly in French a short time back to listeners (9)
  2. Attempt to forecast future events incorporates university, time, a head neurologist, and inspection (8)
  3. Eventually, one becomes a monster (4)
  4. Blocks of stone nearly struck violently under our batallion's leaders (9)
  5. In part, found in odd toy (6)
  6. One-man force (5)
  7. Spanish region is beginning to behave like Spanish? What next? (6)
  8. Centers of industry flourish quietly, son claims (6)
  9. Food and drink for motivation (9)
  10. Raving lunatic -- he's wrong (9)
  11. Self-referential inversion between glorious call and hostile letter (4,4)
  12. Top parts of buildings arrive after, prince reasons (6)
  13. Morsel found in donut I'd bitten (6)
  14. Eloquent American mystery author with odd habit (6)
  15. Long stories about star with no originally ultraviolet light (5)
  16. Large lake near the middle of Germany is a place where things come apart? (4)