The Lord of the Rings No. 4 — cryptic crossword

A themed (The Lord of the Rings) 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. All four returning to country house (5)
4. Wild gleams surrounding ring — Gollum, once (7)
8. Sip, then sit for an artist, say (7)
11. Officer, one about to get bellyache (5)
12. Lizard at large in Guiana (6)
13. Car for adult son, oddly (4)
15. Awkwardly roped Peter in Spain (5)
16. Plant charge (4)
18. Survey equine rations, badly mixed (13)
21. Oafish giant, ravenous eater, at first! (4)
22. Church leaves room for resin (5)
23. Troubles with tablets lacking power (4)
25. Swiss bankers moved gems on (6)
28. Time to relax, kid (5)
29. Features a pair of glasses keeping time (7)
31. Beavers, say, stick with tree shepherds (7)
32. Mull over why it’s tough (5)

Down

1. Match for a goddess (5)
2. Brim with cheek (3)
3. Thror’s killer, a Balkan king (4)
4. Tree with the man in it (4)
5. English son, caught copying, fleeing (8)
6. Ariel glad to be reborn as Lothlorien’s lady (9)
7. Drunk turned up wearing lace? Sugar! (7)
9. Devout, as plentiful company departs (5)
10. Small American greeting for Japanese dish (5)
14. Elder, perhaps, with whiskers? That’s Fangorn (9)
17. Operator taking temperature of big fish (8)
18. District measure with hesitation (7)
19. Standards kept in modern Ormskirk (5)
20. Get up in Paris early (5)
24. Wimp showing crisis symptoms (5)
26. They were all nuts once (4)
27. Heroic picture taken after end of race (4)
30. Prompt line, we hear (3)

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