Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 14/02/2012

Across

1 Very light riding sets lass off (8,6)

9 Resting uncomfortably on jellyfish, perhaps (7)

10 Beg for stories about fairy folk? (7)

11 Stakes a claim to luggage (4)

12 Malayan dish placed always at the end (5)

13 Speak imperfectly, moving lips (4)

16 Vocally, we’re not sure whether to perform selection procedure (4,3)

17 Hurry, yet possesses all the years of a decade (6)

19 Misbehave when put into store after last shop (4,2)

22 Therapy needed as I shut down (7)

25 Art thou troubled? Perhaps these remedies will calm thee (4)

26 Nymph composes boring notice (5)

27 Royalty withdraws from company - it’s unfeeling (4)

30 Come to the conclusion there isn’t a place where 20dn presides (7)

31 Sceptic was doer, but changed when put inside (7)

32 Sports car is followed by service vehicles useful and novel (8,6)

Down

1 Do some light housework, perhaps, during period of severe drought (4,4)

2 Part of leg, the latter being broken by stones (7)

3 The right time for fury? (4)

4 Fag being had in disorderly taverns (7)

5 Vegetable put in chap’s ragout (7)

6 Great ape: how wide does his mouth open? (4)

7 Flower to find - it’s in a spruce fruit (7)

8 Paves the way for scooter (5)

14 College principal first to see Medusa, for example (5)

15 Hilda’s picture preserved in mould (5)

18 Check two fruits (8)

20 The devil’s filthy lucre if stashed away (7)

21 Pour over a topping of roast lamb in the best room (7)

22 Celebrity was Ministry of Defence climber, after rats retired (7)

23 Wind up featured Somerset town (7)

24 Cooking salt with fat (5)

28 Maybe he’s aggrieved standing up in Piccadilly Circus all the time? (4)

29 Urge dogs into soggy snow (4)

Monday’s solution:

Across: 3 Plant, 8 Laurel, 9 Intros, 10 Pedant, 11 Endanger, 12 Tea, 13 Tea, 13 Triste, 14 Surround, 17 Compose, 19 Contact, 23 Treatise, 27 Dander, 29 Pot, 30 Ethereal, 31 Inmate, 32 Vessel, 33 Eunice, 34 Swear.

Down: 1 Career, 2 Breaks up, 3 Platters, 4 Abreast, 5 Tinder, 6 Stingo, 7 Modern, 13 Tacit, 15 Run, 16 Deter, 18 Out, 20 Old-timer, 21 Tenement, 22 Deplete, 24 Rotten, 25 Averse, 26 Ideals, 28 Entice.