CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Court official who was a PM (11)

9. Something more that’s not hit by the bat (5)

10. Means of restoring the Rodin sculpture: lie off it! (4,2,4)

11. Live with lewd sort of first love (5)

12. Cuddle me, being back with the pair (7)

14. Like the first simple fool (3)

15. To get returned in charge of the ears (4)

16. Edgar Allan held a crazy preparation for the hair (6)

17. A writer, on the day, will be in the offing (4)

21. Mouthpiece a buck has returned (4)

22. It is The African country (6)

23. Responsibility our shoulders have to bear (4)

26. One between the poles will do wrong (3)

27. Arise from the name tea adapts to (7)

29. Magnate has a lump of compacted snow (5)

30. Being worked too hard, Ovid never turned right round (10)

31. Belief held from east to west as well (5)

32. Reap satellite that’s nearest to an equinox (7,4)

DOWN

2. All right, there’s a smell about it: it’s utter rubbish (5)

3. Onlooker could end by star turn (9)

4. One on Kon-Tiki came to support the roof (6)

5. Is upset by dig at tea-break (8)

6. What must, they say, be necessities (5)

7. Of Leger course, an Aintree exchange in its abbreviation (6)

8. Have delusions about the actual H-line (11)

12. A ruling night-flier! (7,4)

13. Bottom quietly given a knock (4)

18. Playwright, but not of comedies? (9)

19. A caribou may render one around the East (8)

20. Biblically, father can go up and down (4)

24. Needing prompt attention, get run out (6)

25. Such as Mr Bumble might bleed a version of (6)

26. It’s a sin to be an ai (5)

28. There’s so much in music that’s Italian (5)