Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman

Tuesday’s puzzle

ACROSS

1 Bet torch flakes out in dark timberland (3,5,6)

9 Animal with attitude to take me roughly round opening race (7)

10 Wander languidly around parties (7)

11 We hear court orders luxurious establishment (4)

12 No hesitation in smallest acceptable note (5)

13 Get to area regularly covered (4)

16 Do you need this kind of relaxation if you’re so thin? (7)

17 Look for bird (6)

19 Jersey cow over the moon (6)

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22 Operating zone for watching, saving or destroying lives (7)

25 Doctors introduced to massive possibilities (4)

26 Perspiration – as wet as can be (5)

27 It’s left in oven-like burrows (4)

30 Taken for a ride of sorts by car (7)

31 Mountaineer begins cheerful and agile (7)

32 Person in question by the river is holding on, etc (2,2,3,2,5)

DOWN

1 Thomas is a liability with Mediterranean tree (8)

2 Greek heroine to choose sun god (7)

3 Skywalker and sky pilot? (4)

4 Plant used to scan a lot of money (7)

5 Trying on something suitable (7)

6 Starts to rage on a rampage with one of these, perhaps (4)

7 It’s the tops to dine with engineers (7)

8 Frequency of vibrations is painful, they say (5)

14 What 19 did in exercises on the meadow (5)

15 Girl, ten, is appropriate (5)

18 One of five rulers is restrained and coy (8)

20 Loser doesn’t finish and will fail to cook thoroughly (7)

21 Expand again with dire new arrangement (7)

22 Recants, being disturbed in states of mystic absorption (7)

23 Don’t start to grab loot written up from desktop panel (7)

24 Icon children on desert island made of shell (5)

28 Evidence of final fling, sunk in depravity (4)

29 Hit back at loud lie (4)

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