SunWeb36 by Athos

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ACROSS

1 Go north in twos to an empty place (5,4)

9 Expose to fresh air with a small battery in a tree (6)

10 Auburn toxic bloomer with small drop of water (8)

11 Lark about with tax or a hundred (6)

12 That's me in the foliage, she said (6)

14 Plum! Um! No second best (4)

15 Was the French lad born with a silver one? (5)

16 Rails against the periodical out east (6)

18 Fifty one peels, but not quite round (7)
21 A stand-in for the king has got the chemistry right (7)
24 Rein me in my Royal fur (6)
26 Quiet charitable offerings about an old holy verse (5)
30 Appear to sound like this, Sir (4)
31 Billed, but with no charge (6)
32 Grass like 16 across, I hear (6)
33 A response to creation (8)
34 This steamer does not open the letters; it carries them (6)
35 Don't adore this toiletry (9)

DOWN
2 Oriented, father is around in this regard (6)
3 No oils equals this (6)
4 Nathan came back before Edward, like hide (6)
5 Second class elm and yew play there in London (7)
6 Ten years for the bounder in the river (6)
7 Came around in a limo to take some tea (8)
8 Yet I flirt with such prolificacy (9)
11 Thrown into a class system, by the sounds of it (5)
13 Quiet charitable offering around an old light (4)
17 Select Edgar Allan as a magnifier (9)
19 Fifty mice can irk in the West (8)
20 An advantageous purchase sounds hard (5)
22 The conductor was competent despite losing his head (4)
23 An ostentatious display using leg and spur (7)
25 Ne'er 'ad been so close (6)
27 A plank on the ship (6)
28 Oh, you should not be in the mortuary, because you have died (6)
29 Complain, doctor about the legume (6)


Full Solution

ACROSS
1 ghost town.
TWOS NTH GO [anagram]
9 aerate.
AA TREE [anagram]
10 laburnum.
AUBURN + ML [anagram]
11 cavort.
VAT OR C [anagram]
12 female.
FEMALE
14 lead.
LEAD [PLUMBUM = Pb = metallic lead]
15 ladle.
LAD + LE
16 serial.
RAILS E [anagram]
18 ellipse.
LI + PEELS [anagram]
21 reagent.
A REGENT [anagram]
24 ermine.
REIN ME [anagram]
26 psalm.
P ALMS [anagram]
30 earl.
EARL [PEER]
31 beaked.
BEAKED
32 cereal.
CEREAL
33 reaction.
CREATION [anagram]
34 packet.
PACKET
35 deodorant.
DONT ADORE [anagram]

DOWN

2 headed.
HEED + DA [anagram]
3 squeal.
EQUALS [anagram]
4 tanned.
NAT NED [anagram]
5 Wembley.
B ELM YEW [anagram]
6 decade.
DE [CAD] E
7 camomile.
CAMOMILE
8 fertility.
YET I FLIRT [anagram]
11 caste.
CASTE
13 lamp.
LAMP
17 telescope.
SELECT POE [anagram]
19 Limerick.
L MICE IRK [anagram]
20 steal.
STEAL
22 able.
[C] ABLE
23 splurge.
LEG SPUR [anagram]
25 neared.
NEER AD [anagram]
27 aboard.
A BOARD
28 martyr.
M [O] RT [U] ARY [deletion anagram]
29 bemoan.
MO BEAN [anagram]

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