Across
Hesitant, using gestural and verbal forms of communication (8)
Name of girl I see misrepresented in contents of blog? Just the opposite (6)
Point, or points, one repeated (4)
The money ran out, eliminating a former Middle East country (5,5)
Used to lack experience, but following advice to young man? Capital! (6)
Heavy work, including some art, is laborious (8)
Shown how tense it can be in hearing (6)
Get worked on, using pliers and saw (6)
Fuel was spread over grate, haphazardly (5,3)
Exploit source of inspiration when lives lost (6)
Keep quiet about escape before spring, heading for sunshine? (10)
Leaves from Asia — temperature in that part of world has shifted (4)
Odd character that is moved around in anagram of word (6)
Clear area in emergency, initially — very critical (8)
Down
Ambush European soldier heading north, such as Cyrano de Bergerac (4,4)
Intelligence shown by bidders giving their opponents hiding (4)
Gain nothing in this quarter? Be selective (6)
Mineral's in there, mixed with phosphorus (8)
Negative response about flowers in strong winds (10)
Enters the exam, exhausted, to get prize (6)
Three quarters of strategy rearranged in turn (6)
Opposite of 5 hats (10)
Intellectual heard greeting bishop on street (8)
Dislike neighbourhood being restricted, with east in disarray (8)
Appropriate, as birds turning up from the south (6)
Treasures commercial products of mine (6)
Crazy artists recalled city in Asia (6)
Middle East abandoned by major power? So it is (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue
