Wordplay in eleven clues varies from the entered answer by one letter. In clue order, the letters in the grid identify a scientific principle, while those in wordplay, starting at a different point, spell an example of what it governs. Solvers should resolve clashes in squares where clue answers are longer than the lengths indicated by inserting an appropriate symbol. Correct interpretation of the clashes will enable completion of the unclued entries to reveal the WONDERFUL GHOUL. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.
Across
1 Very much recalled old snazzily-dressed Aussie accepting skill of the tailor (6)
5 Brightly-coloured bird forcibly circling vehicle that’s in retreat (6)
10 Dam I situated in a Northern channel (6)
11 Produced term for ‘lay staff off from, in recession’ (5)
12 Head taking in festival’s range of colours (7)
14 One laying hold of backsliding convict receiving charge (new) (7)
15 No longer shoots Native Americans after Republican taken hostage (6)
17 Glaswegian jokes with idiot where one drinks … (5)
18 … beer during intelligent recovery (7)
19 Minimal hint of this being accommodated by grossly fast eater? (7)
22 Worked at escaping great satyr (5)
24 Fails to acknowledge old crimes involving Duke and Earl (6)
25 Adjudged a number of people killed in conflict after last one dispatched (7)
28 How to get a Scottish band? ‘Run’ + ‘rig’, on reflection (4)
29 Longed to follow after old lover forced out (7)
30 Ed’s to disclose daughter abandoned by top Liberal (6)
31 Ocean movements ship absorbs successfully (6)
32 All-round individual once holding it back before end of game (6)
Down
1 Comment covering lock for governor’s office (4)
2 Men trapping badger about to do for old flowers (6)
3 Cold storage that is black and neat, filled with cold (6)
4 A respectful address to Inquisition tactic (4)
5 Baths constructed here, constructed without depth (7)
6 Injured faun lost blood for real (8)
7 They defend questionable view of graffiti where you join the motorway? (5)
8 A concern to limit oxygen and carbon in superior organic compound (9, two words)
9 Old laird upset about the French estate holders in Scotland (8)
13 Welsh service keeping successful student up big-time (9, two words)
15 A light chat about a decline in middlebrow literature (8, two words)
16 Hostile and tense over footwear line revealed in full (8, three words)
18 About to block instructions to restore highways (7)
20 Charter is revived in parliament once (6)
21 Mysterious fish at bottom of a French river (6)
23 Romantic Hollywood star picked up knowledge to capture Romeo (5)
26 Aircraft losing power to go down (4)
27 British avoiding scornful response – it’s unedifying (4)
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