
ACROSS
1 Something soft and powdery for bare bum (4,6)
6 One who might have spelt, with no hesitation,
“philosopher” (4)
10 Selected exercise in reference book (5)
11 Bearing deal, only half of it and not so generous,
as reported (9)
12 When welcoming Charlie, Spain, surprisingly,
gets all jumpy (6)
13 With relief, early sign of moss eradicated, when
dividing plant (8)
16 A Pole, with duty free, is soundly beaten (9)
17 Thread of fairytale opening with death (5)
20 Mendelssohn to make arrangement including
early section of Elijah (5)
22 Police charging person who’s electing to conceal
large instrument (9)
24 French icon has hair disturbed by shower of rain
(8)
26 New hire’s tormented with eye problem (6)
28 He’s first to go in to tidy up splitting red carpet
(9)
30 Furious Scorsese abandoning direction of One
Hundred and Twelve Degrees, unexpectedly (5)
31 Stolen loot’s initially hidden in this underground
retreat (4)
32 Hated to see Batman die horribly, having gained
nothing! (10)
DOWN
1 Reliable leader of Four, bare-foot on record
cover (9)
2 With this exercise Labour should succeed (9)
3 Fundamental point missed by confused cardinal
(7)
4 Historian stated one of the things to worry over
(4)
5 Squirrel maybe concealing where he lives? (3)
7 Decreases restraints? (5)
8 Top game back in: sensational! (5)
9 Remote Portuguese resort, very noisy (3-3)
14 Central (formerly East) Germany losing right to
enter athletics event (6)
15 Arcadian fleet’s sailing north, with fifty on board
(6)
18 Utterly insensible, and dismissed (3-3-3)
19 Certain about article missing in Paris? Dupond
finally caught out! (9)
21 Possibly revealed bones of adult, dead after
turbulent year (1-5)
23 Second revolution in China is shock (7)
24 Physicist admits Rutherford’s first to make
progress (5)
25 Drive off outcast who’s returned (5)
27 Was he born of a mother? (4)
29 Retreat of Bond villain, having missed kill –
gutted! (3)
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