Harry Potter No. 4 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Harry Potter) 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. Wizards' local where a lucky Leonard gets legless (5,8)
8. Sweet graduate, king of molten rock (7)
10. Full range of radio lodged in gut (5)
11. Control mechanism of short serve to love (5)
12. Discount for faulty beater (6)
15. Give up the flock (4)
17. Sadly, a girl didn't finish (4)
18. Couple left to sign (4)
19. Bitter, perhaps, sounds like trouble (3)
21. Guru appearing in Tokyo gig (4)
24. Elizabeth played in Cleopatra initially on a grand scale (4)
25. Tom's call to cut grass around East (4)
27. Serenade, commercial-free, is calm (6)
29. Thrifty type tucking into salsa verde (5)
31. Nick a degree (5)
32. Cut off one so tardy (7)
33. Brown jumper that comes with a card (9,4)

Down

1. Generous spread of all brie (7)
2. Island prison for an unknown breaking a bank (7)
3. It gets a rise out of dough (5)
4. Seen on safari at a distance (4)
5. Record a duck for the club's emblem (4)
6. Moore playing a lover (5)
7. Famous and toned from working out (5)
9. Very slippery customer, a charmer at the World Cup (5)
13. Establishment leaders in top echelons, primarily! (5)
14. Out of line, like gardens in Richmond (5)
15. Lobby in favour of admitting you, once (5)
16. Grand stuffed into joint for computer access (5)
20. Soothes ribs, taking no time (5)
22. Staged opera in the outdoors (4,3)
23. Frost on composer's lettuce (7)
25. Mother, not quite nice, gets frantic (5)
26. Best away party (5)
28. Some of the rodents eat away (5)
29. Scat with oohs coming back (4)
30. Permit for six from South Africa (4)

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