CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. The putting on of a formal request for post (11) 9. Bar with gin to dispense (5) 10. Bucket and spade construction is a scandal, set out like this (10) 11. Plants that behave in Jersey and Guernsey (5) 12. User of apparatus as well as the floor (7) 14. Richard is in defence of 24 (3) 15. Gratuities returned in a light fall of rain (4) 16. Keep one’s thanks in check (6) 17. Put two together for a flight of stairs (4) 21. An eccentric gets the thumbs-up following a knockout (4) 22. Suit Midlothian? (6) 23. It is agreeable to be so accurate (4) 26. Etna’s hot outpouring (3) 27. Range of spasm initiated by company (7) 29. At which striking blacksmith is, contradictorily, working (5) 30. For each speech there’s a concluding section (10) 31. Refuse to call it worthless (5) 32. With cold, see acne breaking out in post-puberty (11) DOWN 2. Is right out of dough for meat and veg pie (5) 3. Drawing medium a kid in inn might use (6,3) 4. A member of a Christmas band’s in store for one (6) 5. At home, rental can be arranged from inside (8) 6. In 23, a European daughter for a pope (5) 7. The holder soldiers may be lined up alongside (6) 8. Asset priest might have for progressively nude entertainments (11) 12. Pay and get Rolls-Royce out for a royal alfresco (6,5) 13. Ship’s officer looks to Paraguay for tea (4) 18. Sort of fever that could tire a chum out (9) 19. Much that with hair might come to nothing with this seducer (8) 20. Italian song Mme Callas rendered topless (4) 24. Sturgeon product got by way of its appearance in limo (6) 25. Disappear and make oneself so hard to find (6) 26. The brightest star to a Greek (5) 28. Of the sound of coins being rattled (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Class 4. Flaccid 8. Fortification 10. Canoe 11. Mode 12. Dish 16. Idiom 17. Imperceptible 19. Earnest 20. Surge Down 1. Coffee machine 2. Air 3. Switch 4. Feigns 5. Amazed 6. Criticism 7. Dental hygiene 9. Red pepper 13. Fierce 14. Silent 15. Smiths 18. Bar