Gentle No. 5 — cryptic crossword

A gentle puzzle: 19 clues on a 9×9 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Get out of a gas leak (6)
5. Yield or hand over (4)
6. Teaser cooked up for the spring holiday (6)
7. Cram turned round produces brandy (4)
9. Salesman going back for each (3)
10. Some bad songs are commercials (3)
12. Bishop in the drink, but competent (4)
14. Hispanic having church language and love (6)
15. Toga torn by a butting animal (4)
16. Sect taking in religious education is confidential (6)

Down

1. Veer wildly at any time (4)
2. Ocean and coins make a big difference (3,6)
3. Real and present (6)
4. Rouse rioting for European money (5)
5. Mega mix-up in the match (4)
8. Bend and twitch when it is bitterly cold (6)
9. Slope reshaped by people from Warsaw (5)
11. Money owed by society girl over time (4)
13. Kick where the luggage goes (4)

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