Toughie No. 44 — 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. Fate turned back on son gives fits of temper (5)
5. Wait for the fourth, reportedly, to speak at length (4,5)
10. Wander unsteadily inside Crewe Avenue (5)
12. Fever lurking in the normal arias (7)
13. Crooner upset by an inquest official (7)
14. New steel forged to lie snug (6)
15. Sickness present in nirvana? Use a mantra (6)
17. Comic's turn at home in the way (7)
18. Strange one, excluded! (3,3,3)
21. Sugar refined for the all-seeing watchman (5)
22. Walk proudly on a support (5)
23. Ruse at the formal dance? A playground game (9)
25. Concerning eggs, transported via Oran (7)
26. Concurred, having a desire for more (6)
29. Stick a commercial in this place (6)
31. Gut feeling, having lost what's fashionable, becomes teaching (7)
32. I'm a giro, torn up for the paper-folding art (7)
34. Complete abstainer dropping the golf peg (5)
35. English sneering awfully at the sappers (9)
36. Jargon coming back in signals (5)

Down

1. Souvenir from an instant of love (7)
2. Night bird lurks within knowledge (3)
3. College heads wrecked a sedan (5)
4. Erase badly — cover for a lady in Delhi (5)
5. Preliminary round of passion (4)
6. Trimming, when valued, gets cut to ribbons (9)
7. Faun, otter cavorting — well off! (9)
8. Managing checkmate, one becomes number two in the race (7,4)
9. Thrones toppled by stinging insects (7)
11. Pass for six with sex appeal (4)
16. Out cold, yet charming — some pledge! (11)
19. Intro unit cooked up for food science (9)
20. Regulation: artillery taking in one (9)
22. Old tax on a bond makes a wee dog (7)
24. Accommodation in a novel by Golding (7)
26. Relating to flight, as found in Sahara erosion (4)
27. Grist ground for breakfast! (5)
28. Lager brought back, fit for a king (5)
30. Steamy second of yearning (4)
33. Wing tips of a large aircraft (3)

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