Toughie No. 37 — cryptic crossword

A 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. Relish a blast, love! (5)
4. Office holder gets a whack from the panel (9)
9. Attention shown in the early hours (3)
10. Help at home with a mitt, working closely together (4,2,5)
13. Detected damage to the nodes (5)
14. Fruitcake with a stunner — one that gets at the kernel (10)
15. Vets running about in a singlet (4)
16. Caught in frantic hoeing, and reverberating (7)
18. Iron Dad, strangely, is a machine in human form (7)
22. Wreck the criminal deport ring (7)
24. Young high-flyers say yes to pastries (7)
25. Seam worked out into a hill with a flat top (4)
27. Sniggering king, wrapped in sickening turmoil (10)
29. Cloth appearing in short weeds (5)
31. Loose coins for the deck crew pass to new owners (6,5)
32. Cut back taxes, trimming both ends (3)
33. Finished with a view — an error of omission (9)
34. Sections of a paper make office furniture (5)

Down

1. How naive, to thrash the countryside on a city's edge (5,4)
2. Spell in the nick, er — the injured are carried out on this (9)
3. Nothing the wiser about it — or else! (9)
4. Sceptic lurking in a fancy nickname (5)
5. One trainer ruined in a year makes the tour plan (9)
6. Where a walker may get stuck, or relieved (4)
7. Sailor with a poem about where he lives (5)
8. Had a home somewhere in the old welterweight division (5)
11. And not the leaders of nine other regiments (3)
12. Party turning up produces a bar (5)
17. American burrower makes a land grab (9)
19. Act taking in reporters is pushed down (9)
20. The genuine articles — nothing new in railings (9)
21. One caught up in wild dressage takes issue (9)
23. Chessman swallowing king is shellfish (5)
25. Some drama crossing borders is wide-ranging (5)
26. What one takes out, of interest! (5)
27. Understand the sound of the ocean (3)
28. Thou art able to preserve a saint (5)
30. Beginnings of every great genetic story! (4)

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