CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
1 Did a pet spy have to root out blueprints for
early models? (10)
9 Find an old reading-desk in a steamboat (4)
10 Can't get poems composed, at the end, to
make amends (10)
11 Laze about at work with two trainees in the
lounge (6)
12 Is able to get a first lieutenant through a
watercourse (5)
15 Prefers teams that are on the margins (5)
18 Some people held a genuine axiom (5)
19 Tries to get two trainees to build a climbing
frame (7)
20 Is sailing off, in the main, but is at a loss (2,3)
21 Is cross about getting one run, at the end
(5)
22 Was hungry to look long and hard over the
first verse (7)
23 Find an electric connection when in gear,
though (5)
24 Did a heartless enemy hold a stage with a
song of mourning (5)
26 Try to get time, like 23 across characters, at
the core (5)
29 Working with one 15 across, in play on the
pitch (2,4)
31 Enacted the legal side with little time to get
organised (10)
32 It's rather fitting to come back quite full (4)
33 Conduct issue that works in the theatre
(8,2)
Down
2 A leading rebel is ordered to run amok (4)
3 Fall from leading position, at first, before the
French (6)
4 Offered a pick-me-up , going into Nice, say
(5)
5 Devise a scheme to take one into open
country (5)
6 Trace the essence of a bouquet (5)
7 Come together with a blend of different
things at the end (10)
8 Tell me about copy being arranged,
comprehensively (10)
13 Mean to speak out, and take a long time (7)
14 A Latin boyfriend realised the affair had
ended (3,4)
15 At one stage, cops managed to put the
blame on others (10)
16 A girl emphasised that she was suffering
(10)
17 For a second time, a tree was used as a
hidden store (5)
18 An indirect effort by individual 15 across (5)
25 Left, for example, at the end, with a
diplomat (6)
26 He will get nothing for a common greeting
(5)
27 Fish out an outlying corner. It's a point of
view (5)
28 In the end, win Oscar for a musical work (5)
30 One was a champion in the royal service (4)