Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1. Love my friend, he’s such a gem (4) 6. Get up, mother! It’s a mountain lion (4) 8. Get Ian on the team and put some life in it (7) 9. Comfortable holding guns? (4) 10. Just three of those patriots left (4) 11. Ten listeners and serious in intention (7) 15. A hot one? Tell it to the Royal Marine (5) 17. Old players, we hear, are so untruthful (5) 20. I received ten pence for being sorry for my sins (9) 21. Beat it, or else (5) 24. An artist needs this support (5) 27. Somehow dote, Sir, on such media chiefs (7) 30. Take care of the thinker (4) 31. Follow a dogged hanger-on (4) 32. Is a moat ample to create a spray? (7) 33. Intend to name them? (4) 34. Tore out to learn it mechanically (4)

DOWN

2. Drink taken by a puppet (5) 3. There’s such a regal return of beer (5) 4. Discovered to be ripe and scattered on the jetty (4) 5. Takes ages to find such a wise man (4) 6. Insignificant but a favourite to begin with (5) 7. Principal state of the Union? (5) 12. Held a prayer at first and then corrected it (7) 13. One seat holding ten and the most tidy, of course (7) 14. How they defame most Island eruptions? (7) 15. Such a vagrant uses public transport mainly (5) 16. Marks the spot where the pelican begins to discharge them (5) 18. Staggers at the Scottish dances (5) 19. Most allies have to play for time (5) 22. How to untie it and put it together again (5) 23. Form of transport seen in the Andes (5) 25. How to stare like a plant (5) 26. Can be cited as a decree (5) 28. I do have fifty that I worship (4) 29. I am with Tom and you leave us out? (4)

Solution in next month’s issue.