1: Equips for attacks (4)
3: Escalating naked conflict (3)
5: Top dog in hiding from distemper organisms (7)
9: Evil colleague, for example, breaking in contrary to law (9)
10: Wants - in fact, just has to have (5)
11: Kowtow endlessly, awfully neglectful (9)
13: Fill-in professional almost rewrote the column (5)
16: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)
19: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)
20: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)
21: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)
23: Do another version of Kerouac's work (2,3,4)
26: Containers holding top-grade instruments (5)
28: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)
30: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)
31: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)
32: Choose to take the top off (3)