1: Catch up before old crooner talking blather (7)

5: Gets in boats at sea (7)

9: A friend comes round to appease (5)

10: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

11: Conservative interrupting nobody for the time being (5)

12: Vegetables are chickens? (9)

14: We turned up with endless Irish pitchers (5)

15: Poor man's right to make powerless (9)

18: 'There the woman is!' exclaimed in a less friendly way (5)

21: A sample makes sense (5)

22: Piece of pottery containing drink to make beast tender (9)

23: Long for a mass of reporters (5)

25: Country encircling one's country (9)

27: It's big where some Ambassadors are at? (5)

28: Frost to cover the cake (3)

30: Approach hoist (3,2)

31: To fascinate a disagreeable female we turned in (7)

32: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

1: Balls thrown at gophers (9)

2: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)

3: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)

4: Trap with hands? (3)

5: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

6: Mandarin tangled net in rage (9)

7: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

8: Casts off shacks (5)

13: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

16: Shout the chaps to initial therapy.(9)

17: Pound Falcon end into football field (5)

19: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

20: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

23: Laid off, breadwinner's starting to wing it (2-3)

24: War or piecemeal missile (5)

25: Erin's heir is hardly content (5)

26: Cheyenne Mountain installation produces radon mixture (5)

29: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)