Cryptic Crossword

Today's puzzle...

Across

1 Her first colourful band of gold perhaps misleading factor (3,7)

8 Lady succeeded getting mother in (5)

9, 10, 11 and 13 Where window-cleaner eg starts at lowest pay level (2,3,6,2,3,6)

14 Cry from everyone in said Thai house (5-2)

15 Old-fashioned loyalty (6)

17 Bill by railway with no end of parasites on fibre (7)

20 Without checking from worker (7)

22 What dog is pursuing on the way up? (6)

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24 Annoyed about Penny repeatedly having ruffled the surface (7)

26 Rector is only using one prayer (6)

28 Tripe cooked in laboratory dish (5)

30 One can turn by artist with this cat (6)

31 Wrong note right for vocalist (5)

32 Jargon describing new scum in coalmining work outside (5)

33 Go first and delay wheat production (4,3,3)

Down

1 True existence in the practical world (4,4)

2 Old-fashioned girls may be (5)

3 Lady took others to the mountain (7)

4 Red grapefruit? (4)

5 Greek character on that church found songbird (8)

6 Cosy but only shortly (5)

7 Aggressive male with a chief within short time (5)

8 Sheepishly lacking clarity? (6)

12 The first revolutionary quartet inside flourish (6)

16 Abreast of the latest developments on the other side of the channel (2,4)

18 See 24 down

19 It's angry splashing in the water (8)

21 Expecting greedy person to be accepting the point (6)

23 Lengthen time spent in prison (7)

24, 29 and 18 Free to answer back in it (5-4,8)

25 Page had offensive joke (5)

27 Blended wines have strength (5)

29 See 24 down

Tuesday's solution

Across: 3 and 32 Damon Runyon, 8 Coombe, 9 Operas, 10 Townie, 11 Dogsbody, 12 Rue, 13 Member, 14 Late show, 17 Uccello, 19 Padding, 23 Handover, 27 Pipits, 29 Ash, 30 Tillered, 31 Allege, 33 and 34 Estate agent.

Down: 1 Morose, 2 Amenable, 3 Deferral, 4 Mandela, 5 Nought, 6 Lesbos, 7 and 13 Hand to mouth, 15 End, 16 Wages, 18 Loo, 20 Alphabet, 21 Depilate, 24 Adieus, 25 Delays, 26 Verona, 28 Tights.

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