2  Unclued (4)

 6  Unclued (4)

10 Smooth ambassador stops short before middle of October (6)

12 Burden for which we’re responsible... (4)

13 ...or responsibility of the French, thankyou (4)

14 Pale, gutless diviners wield these to look for water (5)

16 Unclued (5)

20 Keep in touch with part of Australia, I see (6)

21 I represent crone in scheme for peace (8)

22 After going through half the alphabet, cricket authorities secure a good timekeeper (6,5)

26 Unclued (5,3)

29 Cast off a French Moroccan Arab (6)

31 Entreat journalists to do their ironing (5)

32 Pieces of dysprosium swell (5)

33 Unclued (4)

36 Spades trouble this sheet (4)

37 Lie back, oddly eyeing Ms. Atkins (6)

38 Murder a Southern song (4)

39 Estate in Orkney doesn’t accept liegedom’s leaders (4)

 2  50s youth, occasionally trendy (3)

 3  Rubbish: this too is body art (3)

 4  For example, having time for a pen (3)

 5  Unclued (4)

 6  Elderly relative consumed one cereal (5)

 7  Latin dictionary includes this language family (5)

 8  Time American hosiery has tufts (8)

 9  Tree in a southern correctional institution (5)

11 Fertilizer obtained from Nicaraguan owls (5)

15 Who makes tacky goods? Brad and others, perhaps (6)

17 Possibly sat round these buildings (8)

18 Patriarch is uplifted by me working (6)

19 Senior Indian sort of ‘sir’ (3)

23 What do we call this French bit of porcini? (3)

24 Fat European taken in by old cattle disease (5)

25 1000 is a new start initially for Indian peasants (6)

26 What Manuel said before bits of strip search (5)

27 Zatopek, say, receives a message (5)

28 Unclued (5)

30 These whiskeys certainly might support the head of Rittenhouse (4)

33 Second half of autobiography recollected a great city (3)

34 Former liberal in party get-up (3)

35 Periodically resell fish (3)