Partial solution
Chef 1. Boss turns blind eye to knife user (4)2. Charge with first-degree larceny makes sense (4)3. Recite backwards about king computer worm (6)4. Start donning trousers, topless educators (5)5. Initial understanding negotiated, communist backs down (5)6. Boys have top notch territories (5)7. Neo, alternatively! (3)8. Look for turban head by telephone (4)9. Point to uneven axioms (3)10. First groom taken by wife-to-be to game (6)Yore 11. Your hearing time long ago (4)12. Spring quest starts before fall ends (5)Socks 13. In distress, comedian Louis punches hard (5)Fore 14. Warning for ultimate disobedience (4)Deck 15. Dress up a ship's surface (4)Sitter 16. Tetris complicated for caretaker (6)