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A cryptic crossword again this week. If you prefer to work on the interactive version, you should click on this LINK.

Across

    1  Regular thallic mineral (4)

    5     Accumulates unusual messages lacking gravity (7)

  10  Foolishly am lost – very nearly (6)

  11  Avail oneself of supporting accountant to bring a charge against someone (6)

  12  Shutting out from relationships, lad cutting socially acceptable out, including old (10)

  14  Have corrupt dealings and with time for power, treat with excessive indulgence (6)

  15  Endlessly absent without excuse, director annoyed, primarily in Central African republic (6)

  17  Unusual centurion in a gesture of self-resignation (12)

  21  Peculiarly triumphal (losing directions) exaggerate one’s acting (3,2,2)

  23  I’m inert, in disarray and casually more effeminate (7)

  25  Strange rotor comes to small motor vehicle (5,7)

  27  Dined away from home – funny-looking tea not in good condition (3,3)

  28  Topless – harsh rebuking! Staying out of sight (6)

  30  Need cursor shifted to underline (10)

  31  Tincture used for bruises found in Carnic Alps (6)

  32  Tureen strangely neither one thing nor another (6)

  33  Bowled limply, without expression (7)

  34  In Scotland clears up revolutionaries (4)

Down

    1  More than half blatant queer outburst of childish temper (7)

    2  Shrub rose found in tidal basin (4)

    3  Little animal bashful docked pup (5)

    4  Dances drunkenly rise (6)

    6  Time in armchairs surprisingly for female family heads (10)

    7  Initially sick, coping incessantly with a compulsive muscle twitching in the region of the hip (7)

    8  Peculiar tunnies for a Muslim (7)

    9  Watery liquids turned up in metric land measures (4)

  13  Tentatively chart roles of a large company of musicians (10)

  16  Lower sail to plunge into water (5)

  18  Sample garment turned up for poet (5)

  19  Horn of an insect – old queen returning chasing a worker (7)

  20  Substituted when moral offence surrounded calamitous to-do (5,2)

  22  Roughly regroups eliminating old people who cleanse (7)

  24  Once spoke of depravity involving old and dead (6)

  26  Mainly odd, our smell (5)

  27  Foreigner found in Skara Brae (4)

  29  Have occasion for regular knee bend (4)

Here is last week’s solution:

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