Nice opening from Gridman, pushing the envelope by introducing themed clues, all of them anagrams Clues in block capitals are jumbles of words from a single category.
ACROSS
1 PINGS INN (8) SPINNING (PINGS INN)*
5 Hotheaded person that he is, scholar hurried back without a bit of equanimity (6) MADCAP (MA PACeD<)
9 GAIN PINT (8) PAINTING (GAIN PINT)* Here's an impromptu painting titled "A pessimist's view of the future". I am sorry you are unable to read the artist's name because he signed it before he painted it all black.
10 My artist's left the enclosure (6) CORRAL (COR+RA+L) My! as an exclamation being equivalent of Cor!
12 It is within the range of a Slovenian (4) OVEN (T) which may also be referred to as a range
13 BREAKING ME (10) Beats me BEERMAKING?? We do this all the time as long as our kidney's function
15 Burning desire to live (6) RESIDE (DESIRE)*
17 Great! A bad end is kept out of bombast (5) BRAVO (BRAVadO)
20 KITAB (5) BATIK (KITAB)*
21 Sylvester's snooze? (6) CATNAP CD (Sylvester, the cat of the Tweety-Sylvester duo: I tawt I taw a putty tat)
24 HOTEL SYRUP (10) UPHOLSTERY (HOTEL SYRUP)*
27 Hot stuff conservatives removed from loos (4) LAVA (LAVAtories) The clue makes me think conservatives worked in the conservancy lanes of yore removing nightsoil from loos
29 A man's representatives (6) AGENTS (A GENT'S) What would woman's representatives be called?
30 QUIN GILT (8) QUILTING (QUIN GILT)*
31
Introduction, by a measure, to growth (6)
ENTREE (EN TREE)
32 RAISE COB (8) AEROBICS (RAISE COB)* The only way I can tie this up with the other themed words is by doing aerobics in a place surrounded by upholstery, painting, quilting, batik, etc. I though of activities as another theme, but some items were nouns.
DOWN
1 Draw drink slowly, sweetheart (6) SIPHON (SIP HON)
2 I'm about to stand by
in the same place (6)
IBIDEM (I'M around BIDE)
3 Pay heed to // piece of music? (4) NOTE 2
4 For the time being national leader's on church (5) NONCE (N+ON+CE)
6 Abstainers hoard memory of sweet smell (5) AROMA (AA around ROM) Sorry, cannot give you a sample unless you install the smeller (an output device that can emit smells based on data in a computer file, yet to be invented. I am just patenting the name)
7 Jack, for one, to gain altered
sweater (8)
CARDIGAN (CARD+GAIN*)
8 One who speaks in many languages but one voice (8)
POLYGLOT CD
A one man tower of Babel11 Papa tries strenuously to become a spiritual leader (6) PRIEST (P+TRIES*) A barman too is a spiritual leader
14 Each king gets added incentive (4) PERK (PER K)
16 Move is visible, we hear (6) INCITE (~IN SIGHT)
17 Partial attitude of one in low French (4) BIAS (I(one) inside BAS=low in French)
18 Cast out bread that is hard (8) OBDURATE (OUT BREAD)*
19 Most eager appeal to head trimmed by the way (8) ITCHIEST (IT CHIEf ST)
22
Animal — the thing with one foot — trips up (6)
WAPITI (IT A PAW<)
Also the first aircraft flown by the Indian Air Force in 1932 from Drigh Road, Karachi, presently PAFB Faisal
23 That man's having
a doubly
good
dish (6)
HAGGIS (HIS around A G G)
25 Tardy, consuming last of hot coffee (5) LATTE (LATE around T)
26 Rake grabs good cosmetic that makes one blush (5) ROUGE (ROUE around G) I hope my not solving one entry does not leave me red-faced
28
Muse about animal having lost its tail (4)
CLIO (C LIO
n)
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