Chambers Sep '19
by Peebles

(all words / phrases are contained in The Chambers Dictionary and our online Crossword Solver)

Across

9Exposed due to wound (5)
10Literary character, er, a damsel in distress! (9)
11Obstruct single women initially entering booth (9)
12Rubbish hit (5)
13Evil-doer crushing Penny's silkworm? (7)
15Lops off top of tree by church, producing big stain (7)
17Some extraordinary ancestral Indo- European (5)
18Home pack (3)
20Pull over next to extremely lovely ravine (5)
22Show lack of respect for female? Pay no heed (7)
25As items arranged for artist (7)
26Kind to gulp hot drink (5)
27It's pointedly put at the end of flight (9)
30Vocally inflammatory Old Diana bristling with suppressed energy (9)
31Chauffeur's rubbish, missing a left (5)

Down

1To give one is to show you care (4)
2Catty, or beastly, to cover up one's vile deed (8)
3Advantage of wife leaving club (4)
4Advice to one seeking help to move stage equipment? 'Don't lose control' (3,1,4)
5Underwear from the ultimate in Paris's shopping complexes (6)
6Curse letting libertine in – it shows you're slowing down (5,5)
7Completely exhausted, disagree on going topless (3,3)
8Carriage renewal, Kelso centre (4)
13Stall bear (5)
14Turning of tin coin – new but not novel (3-7)
16English astrophysicist gets depression around end of day (5)
19Lemur smeared with dye in modest fashion (8)
21After removing top of watery skin swelling, one gets a disease (8)
23Composer's more vexed, having to rein in concerto's opening? (6)
24Scotsman imbibing hard drink? (6)
26Maybe same source of gold? (4)
28Broad western fish (4)
29Perversely made water difficult to fathom (4)
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