This one wasn’t as tricky as it look at a first glance – I think on a first reading of the across clues I was only able to get three of them, but slowly the grid built up and I think I’ve parsed everything.
I was a little surprised to see ‘S indicated by IS twice in the puzzle (if I’ve got everything correct of course).
I managed to fall into two pretty well laid-out traps, first by thinking WINGS could be cotton flaps, so confidently writing WRINGS in at 5 across, and then near the end, at 27 down, thinking it must be SIT,U which left me scratching my head at 31 across for a long time.
Away we go…
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | BOWLED: OWL in PIT – since b can mean BOWLED in a cricket scorecard |
| 5 | WRICKS: WICKS containing |
| 10 | ONION-EYED: O, then an anagram of (DOYENNE,I) |
| 12 | HEAVE THE LOG: the cutter is a ship in this clue – HE then (LET,GO,HAVE)* |
| 13 | BAN: three definitions |
| 16 | EPOCH: H and COPE all reversed |
| 17 | OVERPEDAL: musical (keyboard) term – OVER(balance, as in left over), PE,DAL |
| 18 | KIR,K |
| 19 | STRUDEL: (RUSTLED)* |
| 21 | SAW(considered),GATE(path) |
| 22 | I,BR,D |
| 24 | PROS,ATE,UR |
| 26 | A,R,ROW |
| 28 | AP, |
| 29 | PESTOLOGIST: (GETS,TO,SPOIL) |
| 31 | REIOMETER: reversal of RETE and MOIRE |
| 32 | ESTATE: GESTATE without the G |
| 33 | NOUS,LE |
| Down | |
| 1 | BOSBOK: ‘S,B in BOOK |
| 2 | WIENERWURST: anagram of STEW,WE,RUIN and |
| 3 | LOAF: OAF and L in the other order |
| 4 | DEE(damn),PEST |
| 5 | WYTED: W, then T in DEY(pasha) reversed |
| 6 | REHEARSAL: HEARS(takes in) in REAL |
| 7 | IDE: I.E. around D |
| 8 | KNOCKER-UP: reversal of PURE, K |
| 9 | SEGHOL: (SLOG,HE)* |
| 11 | BLOND BEASTS: (BLASTED,SNOB)* |
| 14 | A,VIA, |
| 15 | S,PEAR |
| 20 | TESTOON: TEST, O(over), then NO reversed |
| 21 | SOAPIE: or SO A PIE |
| 23 | DREARE: REARED with D at the front(top) |
| 25 | OL |
| 27 | LIE,U |
| 30 | TEA: marijuana=grass – TEACH missing CH |
I thought the double hyphen/dash in 1ac was a bit odd.