Independent 11,062 by Italicus

The advance copy I received had a strange lack of spacing in some of the clues. I don't think that was deliberate, but one can never be sure with crossword setters.

This was mostly on the easy side with lots of clues put together from combinations of abbreviations and words with missing letters. The surface readings were quite good with special kudos to 7D for referencing an actual Elvis film.

ACROSS
8	NEMATODE	Worm boring around inside swelling (8)
		Tame<(=boring) in node
9	ENAMEL	Electronic tag left in coat (6)
		E{lectronic} + name(=tag) + l{eft}
10	FLAY	Beat back section of Royal Fusiliers (4)
		Hidden, rev in royal fusiliers
11	SHRED	Extremely selfish communist has scrap (5)
		S[elfis]h + red
12	SOUR	Tartnote written by university Romeo (4)
		So (=note in solfege scale) + u{niversity} R{omeo} (R in phonetic alphabet)
13	THE THING	Get hint about grabbing husband in horrormovie (3,5)
		(Get hint)* around h{usband}. The Thing was a 1982 John Carpenter film.
16	CASTLE	Keepplacingplayers beside short leg (6)
		Cast(=players in theatre, cinema etc) + le[g]. I can't see any point to the lack of spacing.
18	DUST	Powder found by detective arresting posh model (4)
		(DS(=Detective Sergeant) around U(U/non-U)) + T (as in the venerable Model T Ford).
20	ALONE	Endless nonsense is eschewed by all? (5)
		[B]alone[y]
21	EASE	Starts to extol Ambassador Suite, emphasising comfort (4)
		Initial letters of extol Ambassador suite emphasising
22	CENSOR	Inspector‘s son kidnapped by hideous crone (6)
		S{on} in crone*
23	NATURIST	Article about holidaymaker spurning old stripper (8)
		Na< (=indefinite article e.g "an item") + t[o]urist
26	PIKE	Weapon‘s power deployed by Eisenhower (4)
		P{ower} + Ike (=nickname for Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President)
28	GROVE	Covert resistance fostered by Tory minister (5)
		R{esistance} in Gove (=Michael Gove)
30	BELL	Beginning to engrave lines on bishop’s ring (4)
		(E[ngrave] + l{ine} twice) on b{ishop}
31	NEURON	Nationalists collecting money for intelligence cell? (6)
		N{ationalist} twice around Euro. A neuron is a cell in the brain, so might loosely be called an intelligence cell.
32	LEARNING	Right admitted to bias in education (8)
		R{ight} in leaning
DOWN
1	WEALTH	Whitman, perhaps, capturing English hotel’s opulence (6)
		(Walt around E{nglish}( + h{otel}. Walt Whitman was an American poet.
2	LADY	Young man suppressing yen to be a woman (4)
		Lad on top of (=suppressing) y{en}
3	BONSAI	A snob set up institute for Japanese art (6)
		(A snob)< + i{nstitute}
4	LEER	Like heartless queen’s lascivious look (4)
		L[ik]e + ER
5	HEADACHE	Pain commander inflicted on a revolutionary (8)
		Head(=commander) + a Che (Guevara)
6	CATS	Musical elements of play about reaching the top (4)
		Acts(=elements of a play) with c(=about) moved to the top
7	BEGUILES	Charms Elvis originally displayed in disastrous GI Blues (8)
		E[lvis] in (GI Blues). GI Blues* was indeed an Elvis film from 1960.
14	TITUS	Emperor‘s footman essentially wearing outfit wrong way round (5)
		[Foo]t[man] in suit<. Titus was a Roman emperor who lasted just a couple of years in the job before dying of a fever.
15	GROAN	Love interrupting elderly relative’s lament (5)
		O in gran
17	STEER	Having captured Troy, oracle castrated bull (5)
		Seer around T{roy}, which is an abbrev used in Troy weight.
19	UNEDITED	Original couple touring Spain and Germany with daughter (8)
		Unite(=couple as a verb) around (E(=Spain, Espana) + D(=Germany, Deutschland)) + d{aughter}
20	ARROGANT	Haughtyking stops upcoming artist performing tango (8)
		R(=rex, king) in RA<(=Royal Acadamecian) + tango*
24	TOERAG	Lowlife got over being given time inside (6)
		Got< around era
25	SPLINT	Left welcomes new support (6)
		Split(=left in the sense of "It's time I split") around n{ew}
27	EARL	Nobleprematurely abandoning leader of Yorkists (4)
		Earl[y] (minus Y[orkists])
29	OWLS	Read Orwell’s letters regularly; they epitomise wisdom (4)
		Odd letters of Orwells
30	BANE	Outlaw ultimately overcame nemesis (4)
		Ban + [overcam]e