Granite Crossword No.21
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Across

3632 33 - chip back weights, and hesitations second (6,9)
Be a right animal! (4)
10 Loved a Labour party first (6)
11 Extremity of potato explosion (3)
14 Novel empire? (5)
18 Redhead cure, perhaps to happen again (5)
20 Against human tickling inclusion (4)
21 Take in Orient with a second to spare! (3)
23 Good man called American casualty for alien (8)
24 Starts to escape, lies under desk - early death is avoided (6)
25 Drink a litre heartlessly (3)
27 21across - a great deal without name (5)
28 Shape of monarchy? (4)
30 Donated long-head hammer (5)
34 Club area reveals where you might find 25 (3)
37 Follow "thanks" with "I left" (4)
38 Northern person: "I smoke disgustingly" (6)
40 French made big, bitter bible gossip (15)

Down

Completed deliveries? (4)
Sharp, short thankyou, right? (4)
A street in New York is not nice! (5)
Following ref at mix-up (5)
Finish in French 500 (3)
Nothing to regret returning currency (4)
Team dies horribly (4)
10 Give weapons to 35 (3)
12 Take for granted before total ecstasy? (7)
13 Northern corgis excited about getting a goal (7)
15 Reportedly 2 eggs... (3)
16 ...at lunar arrangement (not man-made) (7)
17 Extend time inside? (7)
19 Managed church farm (5)
21 Age of Queen Anne, initially (3)
22 Golfer's support returns English and French (3)
26 Meadow left at East Anglia at first (3)
29 Very fat? That's nothing with bees about! (5)
30 Fantastic, eg rat movement (5)
31 6 second teams compete (3)
32 Social gathering needed in many sports? (4)
33 Iron, say, left in copper (bighead) (4)
35 Member of Elim Branch (4)
36 Distance of backward books? (4)
39 Second kilometre I travel on the white stuff? (3)

Solution

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