ACROSS
1 PA ZA YA EQ ET VZ VZ CB EY PN DU PO RB AG BP GL CR BY PC (15)
8 Slide in backward two-toer flower (4)
10 Priests' hand-warmers (or `Strine literature?) (5)
11 Cry painless colour (4)
12 Not a good thing to go down? (4)
13 A cat maybe a small thing (4)
14 Bright shiner endlessly alone (3)
15 Gold disc to exist before the last worker (6)
17 Make free of the sole noun (8)
20 (The keyword for a Playfair grid, omitting J. It is self descriptive in
a sense.) (15)
23 Partly so, something in cell (8)
26 About the First Gentleman of Europe (6)
28 One in seven, one in opposites (3)
29 Loyal meadow left (4)
30 A strange plant (4)
32 Muddled assent for an unfledged eagle (4)
33 Once a disturbed water, big, ... (5)
34 ... small, thanks to the Royal Navy (4)
35. NC OP QO BG NB AT QY PC TZ EU EB HT IG RV GN UA (15)
DOWN
1 Community feeling to bring house lines together (15)
2 Victoria's archbishop honey possum (4)
3 Records attempt rich fabric (8)
4 Throwing some light while playing unlit mime scenes (4-11)
5 Attack makes donkey sicken (6)
6 Bit of a list to make up time (4)
7 Divinely divided cedeing old stone (as is Kiwi in retirement paradise?)
(6-9)
9 Headless `face in a mystic light' encompassing spirit (4)
11 Repetitive up and downer (2-2)
16 Each once worth two sounding trays (5)
18 Three quarters of 27 dismissed (3)
19 Elba's blackness (5)
21 Step of the father (3)
22 Her and no other, the Hideaway operator (8)
24 Scots grandchildren make public cry (4)
25 Foursquare but not square shortbob pine (6)
27 Got on untreated toes the beginnings of a painful end (4)
29 Den of the evil liar (4)
31 The month leads a civilization (4)