History No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (History) toughie puzzle: 38 clues on a 15×15 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. Minute: a male cat I caught (6)
6. Plug about the kidney — a gland, perhaps (7)
10. A cry of warning on the links before (5)
11. Drink a gram, shaken, with Rita (9)
12. Going to law over using it badly (5)
13. Curtain call for Polonius? (5)
14. Thin gentlemen wrestling with the Age of Reason (13)
15. Painters at sea in the straits (7)
17. Oriental point behind the ship (7)
18. A daughter more suitable for the fitting (7)
21. You're thrown in at this serious objective (4,3)
24. Birthplace of democracy — old grease, reportedly (7,6)
27. About a performance, one gets prickly plants (5)
30. Spanish homes turning up in Kansas acres (5)
31. Courage before a Scottish stream — indigestion! (9)
32. Scoffed: East had a knight (5)
33. Blunders about with jobs to run (7)
34. Mixture of tunes, or a race in the pool (6)

Down

1. African trip, topped and tailed, from a distance (4)
2. Rubbish sent up and torn — a flood (7)
3. Church instrument makes one groan, unfortunately (5)
4. Almost seamless treatment for a childhood illness (7)
5. Caught a fish? Hang on! (5)
6. Separately, a man gets papers under segregation (9)
7. Enters, drunk, with son, and takes umbrage (7)
8. Native, in a spin over a note, shows innocence (7)
9. Brightened, having to relieve the editor (9)
10. Japanese pearl diver in Panama (3)
15. Snowslide as a bed frill surrounds hospital (9)
16. Extends the spells inside (9)
19. Blame the monarch — one who points the finger (7)
20. Rotten senator's crime! (7)
22. Picked, having lost the lead, and voted in (7)
23. Carry out an order — or the one who gave it (7)
25. Pound tucked into a ream of paper — a kingdom (5)
26. The inner circle get a taxi, with Al in the back (5)
28. Three at cards, from a burst tyre (4)
29. Bit of dinner served here! (3)

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