Food & Drink No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Food & Drink) 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. Right in hock, with male bird to follow — a seventies starter (5,8)
8. Regarding the total, the editor began once more (7)
10. Give up the crop (5)
11. Spats stirred up personal histories (5)
12. Knight has anything to show for it? Nothing! (6)
15. Move slowly to the border (4)
17. Deli rebuilt, but not working (4)
18. Page consumed the crown (4)
19. Damage in reverse! (3)
21. Discharge? Time to turn back (4)
24. Cash, endlessly, and one for a Spanish home (4)
25. Minus the left, a winding road (4)
27. Throw in the editor and it gets mixed (6)
29. Exist, and dance to jazz of the forties (5)
31. Hand over king, becoming a donor (5)
32. Orange smashed, with duck, gives the pizza herb (7)
33. Dark, rich, heavily fortified — and not cut until the year is out (9,4)

Down

1. Standard cut for a sweet root (7)
2. Charge that a seasoning is misheard (7)
3. Young insect, a spirit of the woods (5)
4. Chances for a peculiar son (4)
5. Docks reported as means of entry (4)
6. Correct chaps caught in commercial (5)
7. Pound tucked into rotten deal for the soup server (5)
9. Consume with hesitation? One at table (5)
13. Promotion over time makes a proverb (5)
14. Greeks abandoning right are the obsessives (5)
15. Hundred taken in by former partners, the bosses (5)
16. Front for chaps, we hear (5)
20. Heath keeping time for the engine (5)
22. Maracas shaken for eye make-up (7)
23. One that finds its feet, then loses its tail (7)
25. Record one about the art of reasoning (5)
26. Raves arranged for the thrifty type (5)
28. Duck scribbles, and so it begins (5)
29. Siblings turning up in his orbit (4)
30. Loud noise of rapid growth (4)

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