Cinema No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Cinema) 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. Fraud behind the curtain, exposed at last by a small dog (3,6,2,2)
8. Appropriate time to stir right (7)
10. Regulation right for a monarch (5)
11. Convention of the American era (5)
12. Sounds one gets in among informers (6)
15. Hits, dropping left, and bends (4)
17. Lazy, we hear, but a star (4)
18. Cornet primarily of chocolate or nut essence (4)
19. Some creamy umami — delicious! (3)
21. One turning up, not in use (4)
24. Not open to rearrangement! (4)
25. Support the front-row forward (4)
27. Amused, unusually, by the jellyfish (6)
29. Allowed back with note and kiss — a dated message (5)
31. Crackers with the flavour of almonds (5)
32. Outsize, time-rich bird that won't fly (7)
33. Cheap horror, eg, rewritten for the dance director (13)

Down

1. Massive clear-out in attic (7)
2. English proposal produces feeling (7)
3. Number of children (5)
4. A posh painter has a distinctive air (4)
5. Challenge coming back in her adventure (4)
6. Sheet churned out of oil (5)
7. Ciphers for an unknown god of love (5)
9. Try a piece of writing (5)
13. Nothing grim about this smell (5)
14. Rest after peels are turned over (5)
15. Certain tie, posh inside (5)
16. Party officials with ship in disorder (5)
20. Performers who never get a word in edgeways (5)
22. Doctor in hours to nurture (7)
23. Hectare cultivated by an instructor (7)
25. Criticise one caught in a flap (5)
26. Not in? Party on and go one better (5)
28. Old flame turning to art for a bit more (5)
29. Kind of writing (4)
30. Ache when drawn out (4)

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