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Across
- 8. Metropolitan Police Service headquarters releases northern UK compound (4)
- 9. Throw away the sap (5)
- 10. Money making plant or herb (4)
- 11. Little bear is terrified at first with an artist like Picasso (6)
- 12. Type of test for which dentist does not use writing instruments (4,4)
- 13. Queen’s sixth commercial tax officer’s on air, as rescheduled (8)
- 15. First Europeans join together and come out (6)
- 17. Elephant litters have initially hazy and distorted shadow (7)
- 19. Leaves on road with pieces of South African money (7)
- 22. Sepoy goes back after primary meeting with sighted persons (6)
- 24. After Yankee left, only chess is played at the famous Scottish lake (4,4)
- 26. Remix cos mixture for ritual to drive away demons (8)
- 28. Chief husband is fat (6)
- 30. Record measuring instrument (4)
- 31. Goodbye! Die in Australia! (5)
- 32. Make a gun ready to shoot a male bird (4)
Down
- 1. Indian government official has bachelor's degree before university started (4)
- 2. Owned up and let in (8)
- 3. Journalist dies horribly, without a hint of suffering, on a mountain (6)
- 4. Reversible German person's furniture (7)
- 5. Most economical to pack simian in a box (8)
- 6. Pilgrim pedestrian carries hamper (6)
- 7. Peruvian civilisation found in Wetaskiwin, Canada (4)
- 14. Elephant tusk material or ivy compound? (5)
- 16. & 29 Ask big doc about declaration of the return of the almighty (3,2)
- 18. Healthcare institution for treatment of a shot lip (8)
- 20. Declare that an ounce can have new impregnation (8)
- 21. Spinster's old card game (3,4)
- 23. He carries bags, O'Henry (6)
- 25. Law in Central United States about a spiny plant (6)
- 27. Cross Sam's return – it is celebrated six days before the end of the year (4)
- 29. See 16 (4)