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1a is a double definition I think, apron meaning the stage and a strip of land leading to something, so perhaps a house

Cheers Jono....no idea how you know all these facts,...I'd never heard of MORT (horn blow) or the jazz musician Jelly Roll MORTON.

1d. Adjust trousers, useless if split
TIGHTEN ONE'S BELT
9a. Festival opera thus brought back to islands
GALAPAGOS
24d. Face an animal that might be wild
PUSS
3d. Lacking full cover as sound sleeper?
TOPLESS
4a. Cheap seats including rows in far from sorry condition?
GODLINESS
6d. Signs of power cuts - get home first
INDICES

Parses for the above please.

GALAPAGOS - GALA + PAG +OS. Pag - short for Pagliacci [Clowns] - opera often performed with another as Cav and Pag.

PUSS - DD - face [slang], and wild hare.

GODLINESS - LINES in GODS [cheap seats in theatre]

INDICES - IN preceding DICES [cuts] - ^2, ^3 etc

1d. Use less, economise, Tighten one's belt.

Thanks, I had no idea about PUSS meaning a hare, GODS being the cheap seats, or PAG. The things you learn eh.

20a. A part of chorus by jazz fan coming to disastrous end
CATASTROPHE

15d. Mainly pay heed to the right people in church offices
RECTORIES

23a. Fools runs into Cynthia
MORON

25a. Contract governing replacement choppers
INDENTURE

12a. Cockney's novel location for cricket ground
EARTH

1a. Easy, for example, to get illegal joint
REEFER

Parses for the above please.

20a A Jazz fan is a CAT and part of the chorus in a Greek play is the STROPHE

23a Cynthia derives from Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, with r for runs. Not sure about the plural?

25 Governing is IN, and DENTURES are replacement teeth (choppers)