Across
Leading journalists drink squash (8)
Gray's second compendium mostly contains elegies (6)
Rider and daughter finish in a ditch almost (8)
Aim a bit higher than the church? (6)
Latest report by old newspaper character (5-2-3-3)
Hotel auditor's legal documents (4)
Hand stopping a ball going in (10)
Book about Hearts initially exaggerated their goal tally (10)
Italy's capital missing from simple map (4)
Climber's knot — guess if he got tangled (6,2,5)
Key bank bond held by a third party (6)
Mature, since working for model employers (8)
Lecture dealing with India partitioning (6)
Firstly, scout acquires inside info about reserves (4,4)
Down
Sewer rats seem out of place aboard ship (10)
Audio streamed from school pitch (7)
Make, supply or apply plaster (6)
Pompous type, loaded, ill-tempered mostly (7,5)
Nits spread by insects and ticks (8)
Not all reading list entries are brilliant (7)
Large number rubbed out (4)
At sea each lounge is somewhere to relax (6,6)
Welfare checks statesmen forced on society (5,5)
Golf club contracted with another in China (8)
Cop turned killer in LA? (7)
Falling behind insulation (7)
Note that's upset a Cheshire constituent (6)
Help to lower a pulse (4)
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