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1

All I hope is to be linked with Pres., ultimate in soap deployed? (13, 2 words)

Anagram of (deployed) ALL I HOPE and PRES and P (last letter of [ultimate in] SOAP)

APPLE POLISHER*

APPLE POLISHER (sycophant; one who would love to be linked with a President and who soft soaps or flatters the celebrity they seek to be associated with)

11

Silky stuff – odd bits found in square – how nice! (5)

SUR (letters 1, 3 and 5 [odd bits] of SQUARE) + AH! (expressing joy; how nice)

SUR AH

SURAH ( soft twilled silk)

12

Like old dissenter chap antilegomena will have inspired? (7)

PANTILE (hidden word in [will have inspired] CHAP ANTILEGOMENA)

PANTILE

PANTILE (an old word for dissenting, as old churches were often roofed with PANTILEs in their other meaning)

14

Rhymes, reverse of dry, about machoman? (8)

SEC ([of wines] dry) reversed (reverse of) containing (about) RAMBO (macho character played in films by Sylvester Stallone)

C (RAMBO) ES<

CRAMBOES (rhymes)

15

A host‘s foreign eatery with coins scattered around (9)

TRAT (trattoria; Italian restaurant) contained in (with … around) an anagram of (scattered) COINS

S (TRAT) ONIC*

STRATONIC (of an army; host’s)

16

Allotment, see not OK in part? (4)

LOOK (see) excluding (not) OK contained in (in) PT (part)

P (LO) T

PLOT (piece of ground such as an allotment for cultivating flowers or vegetables)

18

Wherein one is laid to rest alongside German? (6)

SOD (if buried, one is laid to rest in the ground or the SOD) + GER (German)

SOD GER

SODGER (old word for a soldier, a soldier in the first world war in particular may been laid to rest alongside a German)

I’m not at all sure that I have the definition right here.

19

Witch stirred censers, hard insect thrown in (11)

(H [hard in descriptions of pencil lead] + ANT [insect]) contained in (thrown in) an anagram of (stirred) CENSERS

ENC (H ANT) RESS*

ENCHANTRESS (sorceress; witch)

22

Small horse was among runners joining fray, coming from behind (6)

RAG (fray) reversed (coming from behind) + RAN (was among runners)

GAR< RAN

GARRAN (small type of horse, used especially in Ireland and Scotland.)

25

Party crowd going round clubs (4)

SET (one definition of crowd is ‘a social SET‘) containing (going round) C (Clubs,the suit in cards)

SE (C) T

SECT (party)

26

Nucleus, e.g large one milling round centre of rally (9)

Anagram of (milling) LARGE ONE containing (round) L (middle letter of [centre of] RALLY)

ORGANE (L) LE*

ORGANELLE (specialized part of a cell, eg nucleus)

29

May be unshaven lout uses flail (8)

Anagram of (flail) LOUT USES

SETULOUS*

SETULOUS (with bristles; some unshaven people may well have bristles)

30

Mount skittish grey – it involves mental powers (7)

TEL (in Arab lands, a hill or ancient mound formed from the accumulated debris from earlier mud or wattle habitations) + an anagram of (skittish) GREY

TEL ERGY*

TELERGY (physical force assumed to be at work in telepathy; it involves mental powers)

31

Being keen on divinity (but not in chapel?) is welcomed by party briefly (5)

IS contained in (welcomed by) DEM (abbreviation for [briefly] Democrats [political party])

DE (IS) M

DEISM (belief in the existence of God, but not in a divinely revealed religion)

32

End up wandering round recreation garden, tense as never before (13)

Anagram of (wandering) END UP containing (round) (REC [recreation] + EDEN [reference Garden of EDEN] + T [tense])

UNP (REC EDEN T) ED*

UNPRECEDENTED (as never before)

2

Decorated border: sow it randomly and you’ll get flowers up (6)

If you combine PURFLE (the entry) and SOW in an anagram (randomly) you can generate FLOWERS UP*

PURFLE

PURFLE (decorated border)

3

Gallery losing love for old nag (4)

PRADO (reference the PRADO Museum [Gallery] in Madrid) excluding (losing) O (zero; love score in tennis)

PRAD

PRAD (slang term for a horse [old nag])

4

Around morning cast light on escape from Alcatraz? (5, 2 words)

LIT (cast light on) containing (around) AM (ante meridiem; morning)

L (AM) IT

LAM IT (American [Alcatraz prison is in America, in San Francisco Bay] expression describing escaping)

5

This part one needed (7)

Anagram of (effectively using the answer PROTEAN as the anagram indicator) PART ONE

PROTEAN*

PROTEAN (readily assuming different shapes)

6

Musical work a journalist turned up, half lost (5)

(A + REPORTER excluding [lost] the second four of eight [half] letters RTER) all reversed (turned up)

(OPER A)<

OPERA (musical work)

7

Such purchases are tending to decline, not rise, possibly? (7)

Anagram of (possibly) NOT RISE

IN-STORE*

IN-STORE (in recent years there is plenty of evidence that IN-STORE retail purchases are declining in favour of on-line purchases)

8

Was pacing first of team’s runners in turf race (last thereof) (6)

(TR [first letters of each of {first of} TEAM’S and RUNNERS] contained in [in] SOD [turf]) + E (last letter of [last thereof] RACE)

S (TR) OD E

STRODE (was pacing)

9

It’s certainly not hern in this nest (4)

HIS’N (hidden word in [in] THIS NEST)

HIS’N

HIS’N (dialectical form of HIS.  HER’N is the equivalent female form)

10

Man, say, that’s taken up with English girl (5)

ISLE (e.g. the ISLE of Man) reversed (taken up; down clue) + E (English)

ELSI< E

ELSIE (girl’s name)

11

Patsy seated holding hat I’ll go after (9)

SAT (seated) containing (holding) (CAP [hat] + EGO [the ‘I’ or self])

S (CAP EGO) AT

SCAPEGOAT (someone who is made to bear or take the blame for the failings, misfortunes or misdeeds of another.  PATSY  can be defined as a SCAPEGOAT)

13

Heretical doctrine to which miscreant converts (9)

Anagram of (converts) MISCREANT

ENCRATISM*

ENCRATISM (the doctrine of the ENCARATItes, members of a heretical sect in the early church who abstained from marriage, and from meat and wine)

17

Nasty swelling, risk when doctor finally cuts into it (7)

R (last letter of [finally] DOCTOR) contained in (cuts into) CHANCE (risk)

CHANC (R) E

CHANCRE (hard nodular swelling, especially one that develops in the primary stage of syphilis; nasty swelling)

18

Laboured like some circus performers? (7)

STILTED (some circus performers walk on STILTs)

STILTED

STILTED (laboured and unnatural) double definition

20

Trader giving credit over year, unusually (6)

CR (credit) + an anagram of (unusually) YEAR

CR AYER

CRAYER (trading vessel; trader)

21

Bit of charcuterie put into soak for stew (6)

C (first letter of [bit of] CHARCUTERIE) contained in (put into) SOUSE (soak)

S (C) OUSE

SCOUSE (stew or hash, often made with meat scraps)

23

Queen guillotined, end of reign denoting a certain sign (5)

MARIE (There was a Queen MARIE of Romania, crowned in 1922) excluding the first letter [head guillotined) M + N (last letter of [end of] REIGN)

ARIE N

ARIEN (relating to astrological sign of ARIEs)

24

No longer calm, almost everyone on watch (5)

ALL (everyone) excluding the final letter (almost) L + EYE (watch)

AL EYE

ALEYE (a word that once was used [no longer] to mean calm)

25

Woodland god rearing winter pear (5)

NELIS (variety of pear that does not ripen until winter) reversed (rearing; down clue)

SILEN<

SILEN (woodland god or elderly satyr)

27

Drink copiously, filling up (4)

PLUG (filling for a tooth) reversed (up; down clue)

GULP<

GULP (drink copiously)

28

Aussie bum I found in animal shelter (4)

I contained in (found in) COT (variant spelling of COTE [animal shelter])

CO (I) T

COIT (Australian word for the buttocks; Aussie bum)