4  Worried doubter is chief journalist's assistant (9)

 9  Mostly she 'll restrain sheepdog (7)

10 Plants in byway, now and then, primarily ragged continuous strips (7)

11 Glimpses of 17th century diarist, we're told (5)

13 Prankster's a dissolute fellow around girls principally (5)

15 Stuff a bachelor flat (3)

16 Constantly find fault with and partly shun a girl (3)

17 Press you at first for kind of sarcasm (5)

19 Make hot and dry average church (5)

21 Russian money's difficulty with the French (5)

23 Flustered hen or some other bird (5)

24 Dingy hill (3)

25 Strike a male swan (3)

26 Additional large blackish edible fungus (5)

28 Can't stand headgear round tip of ears (5)

29 Partly develop a query more difficult to understand (7)

31 Schoolteacher 's organised hostel with this person in charge of training (7)

33 Original specimens produced by struggling holy poets (9)

34 Casual wages of small gang (5)

 1  Public notice circling quietly on one who puts things off (9)

 2  Type of salad plant's large frozen mass (7)

 3  Local twitch, hint of trouble with computer technology (3)

 4  Control movement of young ox (5)

 5  Reddish-brown laurel tree (3)

 6  Mournful hymn's dreadful, involving touch of gloom (5)

 7  Account turning up about ordinary cavalry soldier (one who swears?) (7)

 8  Put up, we heard and flattened (5)

12 County's old lord holds first of hunts (5)

14 Good year might become more cheerful (5)

18 Parent, not first - second (5)

19 Slug a fruity alcoholic drink (5)

20 Passes to ship's company a jack for raising weights (4-5)

22 Move jerkily and pursue a docked dog, for example (7)

24 Digger of trenches, revolutionary communist nursing restless desire (7)

25 Fabric of dress cut short (5)

26 Ascend a small hill (5)

27 Place highly destructive insect is ultimately eradicated (5)

30 In Chicago severely criticise disreputable person (3)

32 Dull, stupid fellow's a singular mess ultimately (3)