Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 08/04/14

Tuesday’s puzzle...
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ACROSS

1 Good fat stew made with your last peanut (14)

3 Leaders of department had a drink at winning shot (7)

10 Mutt ran amok in fit of temper (7)

11,12 and 13 I’m immune to bribery, dear, as the song goes (4,3,2,4)

16 Goes over memory of home visits (7)

17 Hits first couple of yobs (6)

19 Sailor originally preferred assembly-line building (6)

22 Truthful from the time of getting religious education (7)

25 Look out when you hear this rodent (4)

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26 Change end of sound recording to time with close inspection (5)

27 Continent where Romanov girl abandoned a fairly nasty beginning (4)

30 He takes a trip to see this fruit (7)

31 Arrange how Princess is to stand (7)

32 Honoured for services to the computer industry, we hear, and celebrated all evening (4,1,5,2,2)

DOWN

1 Beauty treatment suffered _ cue pride (8)

2 The French know being in charge is short (7)

3 Prepare to take off, perhaps, when found open space (4)

4 Talks a lot about rubbish at first, then grows up (7)

5 Traditionally venerated motet spoilt when I cut opening (7)

6 Weakling discovered game not without heart (4)

7 Happen to exile (4,3)

8 Gas removed from road banks at traffic light (5)

14 A beginner frequently is up there but ... (5)

15 ... what on earth’s dingo been up to? (5)

18 Self-indulgent ten years spent on books (8)

20 Girl stood up at party in Italian city (7)

21 French cheese? We put ours in the bin! (7)

22 Dishing up a roughhouse (7)

23 Slow down when leisure time’s over (4,3)

24 Rascal who’s a bit affected (5)

28 Drug it’s fine to have round about (4)

29 A question of identity about my seat? (2,2)

Monday’s solution

Across: 7 Space, 8 Competent, 10 Peruse, 11 Earliest, 12 Adjacent, 13 Tote, 15 Auberge, 17 Offload, 20 Orca, 22 Innocent, 25 Watching, 26 Retort, 27 Appointed, 28 Looms.

Down: 1 Splendour, 2 Accurate, 3 Polenta, 4 Aperitif, 5 Strict, 6 Snash, 9 Here, 14 Mainframe, 16 Gradient, 18 Location, 19 Ringlet, 21 Rector, 23 Norm, 24 Wraps.