Cryptic 2024-07
By Darren Miller
Across
| 1 | Has‑been came with application for a pardon (6,2) |
| 5 | Poses and sunbathes topless (4) |
| 10 | Learns about wasting energy in a traffic jam (5) |
| 11 | Brewed a remedy, taking notice of standard (5‑4) |
| 12 | Shapes with the ax, removing first bits with a silly song (8) |
| 13 | Boy left, having long time for a snack (5) |
| 14 | Don’t give away spy from the east (4) |
| 16 | Dreamers sit around after I pass out and start to snore (9) |
| 20 | Swinging ape rested at the end of its rope (9) |
| 23 | Point of a cloak (4) |
| 24 | Like neon, it absorbs nitrogen and erbium (5) |
| 26 | Rod comes back with tears, disheartened by snitches (8) |
| 29 | Powdered sage lit at some parties (9) |
| 30 | Online actor’s revolutionary contribution to football or tennis (5) |
| 31 | Fawn and doe eating root of plant (4) |
| 32 | “Sit down?” he laughed oddly. “That’s so prehistoric” (5,3) |
Down
| 1 | Delivered the fifth and last piece of cake (4) |
| 2 | Playing parts of scale over and over on loop (9) |
| 3 | Sauce that’s mostly salt, on sale, half off (5) |
| 4 | On reflection, I veto stuff for inventor (7) |
| 6 | Belted out, embracing Latin vulgarities (5) |
| 7 | Date with gown, with bit of lace concealing run, so it won’t have any issue? (8) |
| 8 | Commotion caused by that guy pinching flustered lass (6) |
| 9 | Wild boys climb top of building, out of sight of representative (8) |
| 15 | Reputation of slob catching nap at first sign of exhaustion (8) |
| 17 | Period of doubt over tribe’s leaders (3) |
| 18 | Bright star from Europe’s upset with van driving away empty (9) |
| 19 | Confessed to unfinished mitten included in tally (8) |
| 21 | Broken statue is quite sharp (6) |
| 22 | Elaborate pot pies trading one pea for ten somehow (7) |
| 25 | Order some sweet cider from the south (5) |
| 27 | Bigwig pronounced band perfect (5) |
| 28 | Every so often, Social Studies is like this, perhaps (4) |