Cryptic No. 6 — cryptic crossword

A cryptic puzzle: 35 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. Barrier for one produces the murmur of a crowd (5)
4. Hamstring caught in the small wave (7)
8. Rootless sort of fishing boat (7)
11. Pastries cooked to start with (5)
12. Pound for a peculiar title? Not much (6)
13. Laugh at a sunken fence (4)
15. Frost, reportedly, in verse (5)
16. Crude, unknown and slippery (4)
18. Where to fill up with juice on the rank (6,7)
21. Chap leading a lovely autumn night (4)
22. Surrounded by mango salad (5)
23. What a member sits on, and for (4)
25. Mad Hatter is the danger (6)
28. Chiefly sage, wise adviser, mystic Indian! (5)
29. Loath to let daughter in, and hostile (7)
31. Quick rains for the exhibitors (7)
32. Italian lady rambling on and on (5)

Down

1. Measure of a swimming pool, with daughter inside (5)
2. Garland concealed in Little Italy (3)
3. Worker with one in opposition (4)
4. Brusque court dismissing love (4)
5. Domestic lantern I carelessly smashed (8)
6. Do queue for the official policy (5,4)
7. Oriental version of Earnest (7)
9. Reportedly, a signal talent (5)
10. Radical starts to enter the house, yelling loudly (5)
14. Issue that's dropped as soon as it's picked up (3,6)
17. Yearn for a stretch of many years' standing (8)
18. Aspires, strangely, to bouquets (7)
19. Put under pressure when time is cut (5)
20. State reorganised shows discrimination (5)
24. Thanks after the brain wave, perhaps (5)
26. Beams from the lift, we hear (4)
27. Keen on the diva turning up (4)
30. Managed to cut the rant short (3)

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