Afterthoughts on a curtain-raiser....

by Martyn Crosby

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A.   Wag round about twice beheaded stuff, giving raucous
laugh (6)

B.   Vet Ely, hovering dishearteningly, is disturbed,
but all is fine (10,2,3,6,2,6)

C.   Flu hit Adolf badly; he splutters regularly (3,8)

D.   Agrees if I stare around (8)

E.   Ethereal authors pen vicariously (5-7)

F.   Racist hue corrected for communion (9)

G.   Hefty reintegration if fun photo is retouched, escaping
from a bad situation only to find the new one worse (3,2,3,6,3,4,3,4)

H.   He turns around in rash environment to go over the
same old ideas (6)

I.   Late molar enlightenment in front of singular means
of enforcement (6,5)

J.   Communicator! My one ounce pie remixed in European
Union precursor (8,8,9)

K.   Los Angeles and German precede Italian capital twisted
initially for washing facility (10)

L.   Tincture of opium makes Austrian Formula I champion
endlessly numb (8)

M.   In front, vessel shows management quality (10)

N.   Proverbially, earlier faults are liable to haunt
when no solids clog washstands up (3,4,4,4,7)

O.   Make first bid and pump surgical operation (4,5)

P.   She parks by trouble on road to Afghanistan (6,4)

Q.   Murphy says it will (2,8,3,2,5)

R.   Finishing magnum, I miscast about coin collecting
(11)

S.   Understand and bring the illustration (3,3,7)

T.   Lowest ranking draftsman finds traditional nestegg
hiding place (6,6)

U.   Missing outside testamentarily providing chargeable
offence (6,7,5)

V.   Tribal leaders of lines of music in charge of the
services (6,2,5)

W.   Mortality´s kind of cannon kills the project (4,2,5)

X.   Stand at heart of revelation of homosexuality, only
ending in a remarkable fashion (13)

Y.   Abhorrently, Earl quits about starting Hitchcock
title (5,2)

Z.   Brought forward briefly, antirevolutionaries defeat
huge disturbance for organism with power to probe nationwide (3,7,6,2,13)

AA.   I thrashed bar about narrow margin (5-7)

AB.   Are turned before ball-dropping incidents produce
cold weather comforters (3-5)

AC.   Had entered female pigs as followers (7)

AD.   Ready to wear Levi´s sharpened a Jew´s conversion
(9,5)

AE.   Falling down chasing a rabbit leads to adventure
(5,2,10)

AF.   A throaty pun transforms treatment naturally (11)

AG.   Humid prospect for one in difficulty (2,4,5)

AH.   District Attorney turns up in showy surroundings
indistinctly (7)

AI.   Saucy ingredient when equine specimen precedes imprudent
surroundings of little Diana (5-6)

AJ.   Charwoman, missing Roman elements, is reduced to
a plug (4)

AK.   Car industries renew run around for accepters of
liability of uncertain events (9,12)

AL.   Reverberations after Senior quits about leaving
spiny element (8)

AM.   I howl if enthroned deem changes necessary when
in an unidentified locality (2,3,6,2,7)

AN.   Academic underachievers or DE consumers (5,7)

AO.   Host whirled around to retainers (11)

AP.   As barmaid also changes in the manner of accredited
envoys (13)

AQ.   Real surrounding perceives sound practice (9)