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Unpublished Beelzebub 5

ACROSS

1              First of transistors on a microchip arranged with radial symmetry (13)

11           New currency network backsliding due to nerves (8)

12           Tree, after a week, is soaking (5)

13           ACAS, say, is excluded from a dodgy appointment process (7)

15           Indian booze – a cask is brought back (4)

17           Begin specialised canal (7)

18           Mischievous type, back in prison – the gallows? (7)

20           Aristocratic plonker was in charge (6)

22           Parts of feet seem ticklish, I accepted (6)

24           I’m Bill, taking time out to be a burdensome type (7)

25           Prince’s rejected gold coin that’s fake (7)

28           WI music provided by cool guy endlessly (4)

29           Refuse to pay back quantity of money left to secure church (7)

30           Split in island over flooded forest (5)

31           United have most of play, but failing in shock result? (8)

32           Eventually shattered by successful party? (13, 4 words)

DOWN

1              Estonian drug imported into an area outside Europe, bringing insensibility (11)

2              Alimentary upset? Get it tucking into rissoles left out (7)

3              Necessary trace element – this turns up in Japanese seaweed (4)

4              Number one reading: vote not needed here (11)

5              Stone axes practicable at first (4)

6              Fossils, old, rocky unless trimmed (6)

7              Conductor was eager to drop note that’s glib and shallow (11)

8              Pledged to abandon area, being humiliated (5)

9              Hot and stuffy, having shed coat (8)

10           The cellar, derelict, contains one fungus (11)

14           Club working to introduce singular historic baptism (7)

16           The contralto invested in ring with two coverings (8)

19           I happen to turn up in squad as source of support (7, 2 words)

21           Beetle understood to collect globule (6)

23           Term for ‘shafts’ apparently used in perhaps bot. or zool. (5)

26           Fish right to leave group (4)

27           Dropping tax once a blow for some (4)

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