Astronomy No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Astronomy) cryptic puzzle: 37 clues on a 13×13 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Why the express seems to change its tune as it passes (7,6)
8. Granny is a magnificent mother (7)
10. Taint ruined a powerful figure (5)
11. Deposit at the gatehouse (5)
12. Editor is behind the big vessel, plastered (6)
15. Fashionable to be keen on (4)
17. Mane tossed — so be it! (4)
18. Awfully dire funfair attraction (4)
19. Primarily, Secure Hash Algorithm! (3)
21. Pets running back a pace (4)
24. American hesitation reveals the addict (4)
25. Quiet play produces a deal (4)
27. Pretentious type getting love, but not genuine (6)
29. One in a nut, perhaps, is an Australian bear (5)
31. Nitrogen, only processed, makes stocking material (5)
32. We give the novice food for the common good (7)
33. Ten collations cooked up for the Great Bear, say (13)

Down

1. Hound a celebrity — Sirius! (3,4)
2. Scheme to name the editor as intended (7)
3. Della cooked with a big spoon (5)
4. Studied the colour, reportedly (4)
5. Village fair, we hear, is destiny (4)
6. Energy, with Etna blowing up, is consumed (5)
7. Brown to have a bash at a dance (5)
9. Fashions models, dropping fifty (5)
13. Note in the cooker, a friend in Spain (5)
14. King, troubled by Lent, went down on one knee (5)
15. Is bringing an action a problem? (5)
16. Cloth from a border river (5)
20. Spreading maple is generous (5)
22. A US mint wrecked by a monster wave (7)
23. Body-building stuff for the excited pointer (7)
25. Criticise one about the alarm (5)
26. Pass home to get a game bird (5)
28. Hot dip for a Latin dance (5)
29. King and fool get together (4)
30. One with nothing left is missing (4)

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