Crossword by Dave Payn

Across
1    Great private investigator is surrounded by mob (6)
2    Reportedly, trial can excite body part! (8)
10  Country where one can find British weather in the east (10)
11  To gripe about vanity…. (3,4)
12  …. can turn on, surround in…whatever, and irritate (5)
13  The French say ‘The Swiss dump…. (5)
15  …. in atmospheric sounding Scottish town’ (3)
16  Phi (3,11)
19  Face-lifter cuts open a girl badly (7,7)
24  Infant figure (3)
25  Push away regressed outcast (5)
27  Adrian is right to leave confused girl (5)
28  Rather a dizzy and flighty woman (7)
30  Will left, the heartless character! (7)
31  Angry royalist is alone (8)
32  Secret court closed inside (6)

Down
1    Stew as found in muddy lough (7)
2    Vegetable (average) is a bargain (7)
3    Snoopy eats one loudmouth (5)
5    Banish headless outcast (5)
6    Book turns up with love to boot (3)
7    Church right to own Scottish firm (7)
8    Once cheeky, now ace! (6)
9    Capital reportedly needing a replacement restaurant (3,5)
14  The Simpsons’ favourite poet? (5)
17  Frame beheaded rat (5)
18  4s missing for singer (8)
20  Coming after Capone, sideways (7)
21  Call up terrorist group to define spring (7)
22  Closest resent a change (7)

Last month’s answers
Across
1 A Christmas, 8 Olivier, 9 Abide, 10 Tacit, 11 Domingo, 12 Betray, 14 Hassle, 17 Kitchen, 19 Carol, 21 Nurse, 22 Evident, 23 Dead centre
Down
1 Adopt, 2 Haircut, 3 Idiot, 4 Tirade, 5 Anaemia, 6 Sign, 7 Before, 12 Baking, 13 Achieve, 15 Sargent, 16 Indeed, 18 Tarn, 18 Chide, 20 Litre