Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman

Wednesday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Bird’s account for turtle (9)

9 Appropriate whilst in transit (6)

10 Lids Wren removed from trickster (8)

11 Get out of pocketing another carp (4,2)

12 101 leave craziest crazy substitute (6)

14 Cape instrument? (4)

15 Kid moved from side to side, say (5)

16 Animal a US soldier catches out (6)

18 The lady’s clothing reported is hairy (7)

21, 24, 26 and 30 Proverbial reminder helping one to cut down on the sewing (1,6,2,4,5,4)

31 Full of wrath if rule is amended (6)

32 String removed from elegant sort of sail (6)

33 Being dishonest while dancing? (8)

34 Hide line or rut (6)

35 Second tench Liz exchanged for veal (9)

DOWN

2 Crowds everywhere so friendly (6)

3 Also leaving Saskatoon travelling to US state (6)

4 Busy fellow took Elizabeth into the country (6)

5 Drunk dog? (7)

6 Blending less than half a score in vase (6)

7 Rugby fund first part broke (8)

8 Hide drunk who’s clinging (9)

11 Appeals to the highest authority (5)

13 Exquisite-sounding ballet-skirt (4)

17 With which to adjust the height of one’s seat? No (9)

19 Going round following in succession (8)

20 Alignment to east inside (3-2)

22 Mountie refused to enter row (4)

23 Germ-free pies cat upset (7)

25 Agamemnon, not Turkish commander, removed hypothetical unit or memory (6)

27 (Fore)sight (6)

28 Group let it stand previously inside (6)

29 Fruit at start of 500th anniversary (6)

Tuesday’s solution

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Across: 1 Icepack, 5 Skits, 11 Armed to the teeth, 12 Eats, 13 Queue, 14 Toil, 17 Sagest, 18 Singlet, 20 Abusive, 22 ATFwas, 24 Mail, 25 Boast, 26 Elan, 29 Nothing differed, Epoxy, 31 Untried.

Down: 2 Come to a full stop, 3 Puds, 4 Croquet, 6 Kite, 7 The world at large, 8 Gazed, 9 Ghouls, 10 Chalets, 15 Peril, 16 Knits, 19 Jamming, 21 Enough, 22 Fustian, 23 Snide, 27 Jinx, 28 Afar.