| Across | | 1 | Wind rotates round a balloon (8) | | 7 | You'll want Scotch at any time - it's superb around noon (4) | | 10 | A saucer cracked round middle of tea breaks? (8) | | 11 | 'Crap' was irritating, incorporating end for Ratner (4) | | 12 | 'Questionably blest, in fixed course' - descriptive of declining industry? (8) | | 13 | Strange nature needs examining to reveal this side of head (4) | | 14 | Months before onset of tendonitis in running one's lame (9) | | 15 | Torch that's out of use after battery date (4) | | 18 | Informal talk with sailor in amphibian (10) | | 20 | Changing climate's restricting care of carnivorous mammal (10) | | 25 | Pair not actually married you married for audience? (4) | | 26 | Comfortable place rather messed about in embrace? (9, 2 words) | | 27 | What's this seaweed for? Flavour, when shredded (4) | | 28 | Aviation fuel? Bit of this replaces litre in unusual 'crate' (8) | | 29 | Gear he's missing, the twit (4) | | 30 | Rate vino badly? Here's antidote to poisonous stuff (8) | | 31 | You'll find this bit of luck enough in a gambling game (4) | | 32 | Jock's firmly backing getting up once stuck in vile pad (8) |
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| Down | | 1 | A top commander accepts deserter, weak-willed (7) | | 2 | Ee, a duel's gone wrong, in broken off spear embedded - disinfectant needed (12, 3 words) | | 3 | Increase upset what former residents enjoyed (8) | | 4 | Work up bit of choler in rising bans (6) | | 5 | Foul matter I see regarding fish's gill openings (8) | | 6 | Cropping outer parts of quartet, terribly rash (6) | | 7 | Problems in the past involving any of several kings (5) | | 8 | Char pens names on scrawled notice concerning relations (12) | | 9 | Floor rug, not to pick holes, become grey? (5) | | 16 | Give former account of devious Dives, eastern, with credit in (8) | | 17 | Ribbony Japanese fish finished up on end of line (8) | | 19 | Arry's girl in pool, skittish (7) | | 21 | Writing about oil, such phrases recur (6) | | 22 | Feather-brained lassie, one clothed in browny grey (6) | | 23 | Food: bit of beef or chicken (5) | | 24 | Spy -- at work - as poetry emerges? (5) |
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