1 Stick - yet fail to stick to something! (6)
7 Advantageously, the advice is not to waste a bit (8)
8 It hurts if you miss it and hit it (4)
10 Where Anne is taken aback by Vic,
but not Charlie (6)
11 A slicker rhyme for basketwork (6)
14 Number lost when decimated (3)
16 A lord, a detective sergeant, and some
schoolgirls (5)
17 A rotten colour (4)
19 Encrusted with food? (5)
21 Artist given a rude shock by a redhead? (5)
22 Drunk enough to be finishing in misery! (5)
23 Intransigent in business (4)
26 Book of records? (5)
28 Like the part of Mephistopheles (3)
29 Bring a certain maturity to a sailor boy (6)
30 Empty as victory may be said to be (6)
31 With the power some tablets have (4)
32 At mealtimes, fails to keep one's
mouth shut enough? (8)
33 Concealing something painful (6)
1 Sags (6)
7 Simultaneously
(8)
8 Certain (4)
10 Inexperienced
(6)
11 Leg bone (6)
14 Grain (3)
16 Acceptable (5)
17 Ruminant
mammal (4)
19 Stunt (5)
21 Large house (5)
22 Subtract (5)
23 Cipher (4)
26 Yielded (5)
28 Possessed (3)
29 Sarcastic (6)
30 Soldier (6)
31 So be it (4)
32 Type of tree (8)
33 Deserved (6)
DOWN
DOWN
1 Is such hair valuable? (6)
2 Isle with a historic crown official and titular
head (6)
3 A moving excuse to wear a grass skirt? (4)
4 Policeman with a desk job? (7)
5 Not much snow, but it's mostly imitation any-
way! (5)
6 They bring colourful changes (5)
8 Using them for cricket practice would not be
fishy (4)
9 A Finnish hotel? (3)
12 A swimmer to see do wrong? (3)
13 Nominally a dunderhead in a wild rage (5)
15 Transport by automobile and railway (5)
18 A relative in money lending (5)
19 Pushed over a bridge, only part rescued (3)
20 As an opener, assume one to be an ass! (3)
21 Tom's raised, indeed, yet lowered in status! (7)
22 A business vehicle (3)
23 Ill fed, maybe, but not empty inside (6)
24 How the land lies, perhaps, amid water (4)
25 Cutting across the lawn (6)
26 Where one of the Highland races is run! (5)
27 He has a dozen of his own (5)
28 Warm place for a goblin? (3)
30 One needs to take breath when eating it? (4)
1 Jigged (6)
2 Of the eye (6)
3 Casserole (4)
4 Hand over(7)
5 Spectre (5)
6 Baked food (5)
8 Fruit (4)
9 Decay (3)
12 Pub (3)
13 Furious (5)
15 Sudden fear
(5)
18 Glowing coal
(5)
19 Taxi (3)
20 Kitty (3)
21 Intervene (7)
22 Lair (3)
23 Profession (6)
24 Norse god (4)
25 Levelled (6)
26 About (5)
27 English port
(5)
28 Bad actor (3)
30 Friend (4)
