Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 10/03/15

Tuesday’s puzzle

ACROSS

1 Mug at end, getting booked for acquiring football fan’s prize (3,5,6)

9 Non-wintering martin flies away making use of gravity (7)

10 Offers money on credit again in New Orleans (7)

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11 Make suggestive remarks, perhaps, when old film turns up (4)

12 The great and the good turn their backs on original sin of black marketeers (5)

13 Steal top of ermine cloak (4)

16 Operation intruded on way in, leading to progressive decay (7)

17 Leave deposit on paintings (6)

19 Porkers taken as first course of dinner at tables (6)

22 Obtain professional healing treatment (7)

25 Are you prepared, they used to say, to droop? (4)

26 Jam berries carry a warning (5)

27 One on reccy misses nothing, having rabbit’s tail (4)

30 kidsnet.org is very charitable (7)

31 Reported to regret pointed remark made during idle muttering (7)

32 Faithful to fashionable work with French article in late Roman capital (14)

DOWN

1 Goes along with comprehensive untruths (8)

2 Unlikeable person intended to be heard by producer of colour (7)

3 Terrible ruler had one means of transport (4)

4 Payouts organised as result of investigation (7)

5 Did well on the short and difficult drive (7)

6 Scottish fellow you said to leave out remains cool (4)

7 Throwing back mane, our follower may engender love (7)

8 Speeds, losing head – has a collision, even worse – reduced to cinders! (5)

14 Charlie, old boy and academician, is a snake (5)

15 Not long now to get partner’s first cuddle (5)

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18 Seat belt repaired in suitable condition for MOT, say (8)

20 Character as you like it – or love and love again (7)

21 Art a muse inspired on coming back to Indonesian island (7)

22 Dangerous condition of stage, one might think, for seaside performer (7)

23 Can lump sum release car illegally parked? (7)

24 Roused in wonder to find it fine (5)

28 Fail to conclude rental agreement for meadows (4)

29 Get hot running water (4)