Kind of a low-tech blog — apologies. I pulled a muscle, can’t get blogging utility to refer to old puzzles, the check is in the mail nd the dog ate my homework. Oh, and it’s really hot since the AC doesn’t work.
Across
1 Garden party, about end of June? Arrive with a measure, including starter of pâté (13, 2 words)
FET(E) CH,A,M(P)ETRE
10 Paris I love, initially stormy and hot, or showery? (8)
APRILI,S,H – (paris, I, l)*
13 Fool admits love for girls as sex objects (4)
S(O)AP – love=O here. Turns out that SOAP can refer to women collectively as sex objects (a Trumpism??)
14 Farmland in a story (first page missing) (6)
[p]ARABLE
15 Scottish pie or pasty cooked without its centre (4)
PYAT – Scots pied. (PA[s]TY)*
16 Lolly that is collected by political party (8)
GREEN(IE)S – slang money (thus “lolly”) and the Greens are our political party.
17 Unidentified old plant, thin, straggling amid veg (7)
PE(NTHI*)A – another name for the unidentified plant astrophel (according to our friend Spenser)
18 Coloured blouse? It’s usually yellow (6)
RED TOP – ref. tabloid newspapers which typically (seemingly world-wide now) have red banner headlines and of course peddle in yellow journalism.
19 Disport at sea in rowing races (7)
TORPIDS – (disport)* – Oxford races
22 String for N. Benedetti? Her Amati is useless without E one (6)
THAIRM – (H[e]r Amati)* – pretty good clue if you know that Nicola Benedetti is a Scots violinist — though like me you might have assumed she was Italian. It’s a Scots musical string – so it’s an &lit.
25 Building worker had broken in spade possibly (7, 2 words)
HAR(D HA)T – I always assumed this was an Americanism — at the very least an import. had* in hart=spade=a male deer.
26 Small change abroad once VAT’s applied (8)
CENTAVOS – (once VAT’s)*
28 Make good meal with a roll and a bit of bacon inside (4)
ABET – “make good”. Take tea=meal, “roll” it for “AET and then insert a B (for a bit of bacon)
30 E.g. wide-awake before wedding, does she rule the house nominally? (6)
HAT,TIE – hard clue! Feminine Henry which literally means “home ruler” (from the German apparently). I don’t see why HAT=”e.g. wide-awake” though. thanks to bridgesong, turns out wideawake=hat (in Chambers though I couldn’t find it).
31 US criminal to bewilder, denied Roman law (4)
PERP[lex]
32 Shoot one’s mouth off? It’s dangerous in an emergency (8)
FIRE,TRAP
33 See ten spades dealt out, king included? Reckless urge results (13)
DESPE(R)ATENESS – R=king in (See ten spades)*
Down
1 Scots take trouble producing fine tree (4)
F,ASH – Scots take trouble indeed
2 Undergo instruction in poetic language? Some betray nerves (6)
TRAYNE – Spenser’s train. Hidden.
3 Holder of distaff reluctant to go into company (6)
C(LOTH)O – a distaff-holding Fate.
4 Duck, not trimmed initially, a feature of Indian cuisine (4)
[not]HING – asafoetida which doesn’t sound v. appetising but is a feature of Indian cooking apparently.
5 Fear of stormy weather, fault overcoming rustic in major land mass (11)
AS(TRAP,HOB)IA – “morbid fear of (thunder and) lightning” – hob=rustic
6 Unadulterated eastern blend (5)
PURE,E
7 Golfer may suggest such antelopes from his homeland (6)
EL,AND,S – ref. S. Afr. golfer Ernie Els — I suppose this a homophone &lit if you spelt out Els as EL and S.
8 Biblical text to get one’s teeth into, endlessly (5)
TO,BIT[e] – an apocryphal book of the Bible (aren’t they all? sorry, Don). I thought this was TRACT at first but couldn’t make wordplay work — since it’s incorrect.
9 Plant disease certainly found in e.g. mango grove, on the up (7)
E(YES)POT – plant disease – yes in rev(tope)=a grove (perhaps of mangoes in India).
11 It sweeps from afar? You can say this of Rome, perhaps (9, 2 words, apostrophe)
POPE’S HEAD – long-handled brush=”sweeps from afar”. And is I guess a way to describe the Vatican, i.e. somewhere where the pope is the head.
12 Actor, pale, messed up leading Shakespearean role (9)
CLEOPATRA – (Actor, pale)*
17 Opening hamper, chat freely, getting plastered? (7)
P(ATCH)ED – chat* in ped=hamper.
19 Cherubs, tons viewed from below, prance jauntily (6)
T,ITTUP – rev(putti=cherub)
20 Bank, often hard to see in river (6)
D(RAW)EE – nice definition: a “bank, often”. RAW=hard to see (in the violent/sexual sense)
21 Former companion, male, accepted by father (6)
P(HE)ERE – companian (archaic). Ref. Pere Goriot.
23 One’s put up stakes (5)
AN,TES – rev(set=put)
24 Put up in eastern inn, transferring sections (5)
RAISE – “put up” again but this time the definition. Take se,rai=a khan (eastern inn) and switch its two syllables.
27 Sergeant may be seen to be limited by this rank (4)
SORT – not excited but seems like the clue is saying “Sergeant” is limited (contained) by either the letter S OR T. And rank=sort. Does OR=ordinary ranks play a part? Not sure.
29 Niche, we hear, for some software? (4)
APPS – sounds like “apse”. Nice clue.
Commiserations on the injury, Ilan. A wideawake is a type of hat: it’s in Chambers.