CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A top aim, some region between Tigris and Euphrates (11)

9. Have a vision that it could be made right (5)

10. Mum burned carbon into the waistband (10)

11. The chosen type for a typewriter (5)

12. Act of humiliation for writer with acne maybe (7)

14. Bitumen starts to attract rodents (3)

15. Drinks one breaks the seal of (4)

16. Sort of track Ella took to pantomime (6)

17. Will walk unevenly when drooping (4)

21. Form of wrestling that will add up to nothing (4)

22. A singularly nutty fruit (6)

23. A pole around a highway (4)

26. Note its return among the chosen (3)

27. The most remote term for change in a Devon river (7)

29. Sort of acid used in syllabub or icecream (5)

30. Disinclined to mix in, I can’t also take one out (10)

31. Window built out from the Loire (5)

32. Comic places partners in crime get into (11)

DOWN

2. Military Cross, one might be told, for the compère (5)

3. Name-drops in which perfumes are featured (9)

4. Part of lathe for making a tank-top (6)

5. Peak not to be made out of a molehill (8)

6. Machine that counts as a reptile (5)

7. How real is a story told in instalments? (6)

8. To take one off is not a premise to be juggled with (11)

12. It is bound to be full of illustrations (7-4)

13. Number the latter two-thirds of six? (4)

18. It is workable as an examination in a scientific subject (9)

19. Impressive time chap takes to make it (8)

20. Prohibit additive number if it’s poison (4)

24. Skilful way the French go right (6)

25. Having gone overboard, it may be washed up (6)

26. Steps to the building of an opera house (5)

28. Get me to fish up an affray (5)