Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 16/12/14

Tuesday’s puzzle
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ACROSS

1 Show impatience with make-up passing for teen (3,4,7)

9 Be unfaithful in March, for example (3-4)

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10 Cop airs plans that are nothing out of the ordinary (7)

11 Proverbially heavy role as Hamlet, say (4)

12 Was Lord Lieutenant imprisoned within barriers? (5)

13 Electronic component detailing children’s internet protocol (4)

16 Dragged down, executed, threw out (7)

17 Ailment requiring surgical interventions when dehydrated (6)

19 Gone back on horse to get drink (6)

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22 Branch office gets record that’s not applicable in home of favourite pasta (7)

25 Just a pool (4)

26 Peculiar song was about fire-raising (5)

27 Fill up with Greek letters (4)

30 It’s most serious when sepulchres begin to tilt (7)

31 Shoe worn in coach (7)

32 Be sent packing to receive fox hunting trophy – in poor taste? (3,3,5,3)

DOWN

1 Shared out – allotted – what the full amount came to (8)

2 Disrespect for coming back in through broken window (7)

3 Man is heard to go down on his knees (4)

4 Household officer required to sew dart with fancy stitching (7)

5 Little trouble-maker was in a bad way, we hear, when staked (7)

6 Virtue of investing nothing in deity (4)

7 Gets to being concerned over pains (7)

8 Officer in Home Counties range (5)

14 Spell of work done in wader (5)

15 Blackbirds as game (5)

18 Unadorned letters composed with fairness (8)

20 How old are those clothes? They’re rubbish! (7)

21 Arrange target round circle and strangle (7)

22 Fish left in straw hat (7)

23 Become obsessed with don (3,4)

24 A fighter plane met by old friend (5)

28 Alters it alternately, just in case (4)

29 Some letter turned up when light meal cut short (4)