Crossword quest

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ACROSS

1 Grow under conditions that promote development (8)

5 Native American people of northern California and southern Oregon (anagram of “a stash”) (6)

11 Several 2 down films (1935 with Seymour Hicks, 1951 with Alastair Sim, 1970 with Albert Finney...!) (7)

12 A 2 down film starring Macaulay Culkin (4,5)

13 Use ine iciently or inappropriately (5)

14 Bury, or a prefix meaning amongst (5)

15 The hero of a 1982 action film that begins during the 2 down 30 down (5)

16 Wanderers who move around according to the 30 down (6)

17 Raymond, creator of the children’s book “The 7 down” (6)

18 Abbreviation for the compass point at a bearing of 22.5° (3)

20 Where the 9 down saw a star, according to the 2 down story (4)

21 A small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions (7) 22 A vessel, normally water-borne (but also used for a spacecraft, etc) (4)

26 A carnivorous mammal – metaphorically a wily person or to deceive (3)

28 A star in the constellation Ursa Major, at the end of the Big Dipper’s handle (Talk aids hiding it, perhaps?) (6)

29 The warmest 30 down (6)

31 Jumps (5)

32 My sibling’s daughter (5)

33/2 Irving Berlin song from the 1942 film “Holiday Inn” (the world’s all-time best-selling single) (5,9)

34 Tending to give force or emphasis (9)

35 A nerve running alongside the hip joint associated with lower back pain (7)

36 Common name for cerumen – a bodily secretion used historically in pigment, therapeutically, and to stop threads fraying (6)

37 Not shadowed (8)

DOWN

1 A 1946 2 down film starring James Stewart, which won an Academy Award for a new method of simulating falling snow! (3,1,9,4) 2 See 33 Across

3 Support for volumes? A 1968 LP by Simon & Garfunkel (8)

4 See 19

6 A skin condition one may su er especially in 29 (4,4)

7 A common feature of the coldest 30 down dating back to at least the Middle Ages (7)

8 Jimi Hendrix’s 1967 debut studio album (a question the 9 down would probably answer “yes!”) (3,3,11)

9 Common name of the Magi from the Gospel of Matthew (3,5,4,3)

10 Embroilment – with crooked Oil Rig Mob, perhaps? (9)

19/4 A song performed by Aled Jones in the TV version of “The 7 down” (7,2,3,3)

23 Heavy-handed, clumsy (from “a low-grade actor” originally) (3-6)

24 A 2003 2 down film starring Billy Bob Thornton (3,5)

25 Be heavier than (8)

27 A certain ‘ je ne sais quoi’ (and a TV talent show) (1,6)

30 “The Four ___s” are violin concertos by Vivaldi (6)