Literature No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Literature) 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. Fine mineral tailing, hinting at things to come (13)
8. About American cats and their old ways (7)
10. Rebuke with note for all the players (5)
11. Evidence, having lost power, gives shelters (5)
12. Land is at sea! (6)
15. Do nothing about the bread (4)
17. Exposes cricket dismissals (4)
18. Leaders of North East Sandy Shore make a point (4)
19. Girl buried in the proposal (3)
21. Strikebreaker makes a crust (4)
24. Clearance, we hear, for a cruise (4)
25. Say no to a study of the unknown (4)
27. Proton smashed right away (6)
29. A bit I broke — the shin bone (5)
31. Delighted cry taking in member — what energy! (5)
32. They stop the news drifting (7)
33. Position on up-to-date doctrine: a late twentieth-century movement (13)

Down

1. Rubbing river out produces make-believe (7)
2. Cook rustles up the final scores (7)
3. Contempt for southern grain (5)
4. A pound, so — into the bargain (4)
5. Oast rebuilt for horse feed (4)
6. Nitro exploded at the opening (5)
7. Sorrow when grand fire gets out of hand (5)
9. Way in Rome for a fashionable American (5)
13. Prosecute, with editor inside, for soft leather (5)
14. Test fool with a positive answer (5)
15. Rope raised in gross alarm (5)
16. Look out for a hold-up (5)
20. Wolfish, losing energy, becomes a flower (5)
22. Lion can be trained for a Sicilian delicacy (7)
23. Flowers when bishop gets defeat with honour (7)
25. Wilt with nothing in the fall (5)
26. Calls for means to be reformed (5)
28. Carer in a spin becomes the driver (5)
29. Subject dropping English? The opposition (4)
30. Dull, turning into a poet (4)

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