Toughie No. 32 — cryptic crossword

A toughie puzzle: 40 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. Where the substitutes sit in judgement (5)
5. Corruption at riotous raves — the other way round (4,5)
10. Some extra roses came up (5)
12. A name is lost in this! (7)
13. A snail's wandering over salt flats (7)
14. Grape variety cut from the former lot (6)
15. Strains born in the rushes (6)
17. Letting some inherent ingenuity show (7)
18. Jealous? Hit out at protected land (5,4)
21. Sedge planted at borders (5)
22. Bury winter after losing its head (5)
23. Aid pruned, sadly, and poorly rewarded (9)
25. One who foretells a return, reportedly (7)
26. Settle differences and invent (4,2)
29. Tuna, um, cooked at harvest time (6)
31. Bah! Burr! — mumbled nonsense (7)
32. Caps set out at angles (7)
34. Beauty appearing in Nobel lecture (5)
35. Charm of a dessert on the headland (9)
36. Chosen few get to choose (5)

Down

1. Head for the sack — it makes a comfy seat (7)
2. Grandma's flat bread (3)
3. Part of a mediocre meal, cream in Calais (5)
4. Shoed badly and washed down (5)
5. Meat, perhaps, primarily very expensive and lean (4)
6. Theatre company assessed and cut (9)
7. Unpaid helper working on a true novel (9)
8. Managing partner, second on the ticket (7,4)
9. Allocates when symptoms show (7)
11. Knight and son become gentlemen (4)
16. Kill with current dance music, say? How pretty! (11)
19. No threats developed from that quarter (9)
20. Quite able, when sorted out, is fair (9)
22. Goods from abroad: little devils pocketing a leftover (7)
24. Topside cooked and put down (7)
26. Amount raised in the east makes one ponder (4)
27. Member drowning in beer — more than enough! (5)
28. Solemn peal for King and Gwyn (5)
30. Son, with willow raised, checks (4)
33. Sea, by the sound of it! (3)

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