No 9533, Friday 15 May 09, Gridman

What a relief after 10 days of torture
ACROSS
1 - Slick hit turns out to be hard to handle (8) - TICKLISH*
5 - Able to get endlessly spacious painting surface (6) - CAN{VAS}(-t)
9 - True, lady! Gallivanting may result in love relationship (8) - ADULTERY*
10 - Killer of small hen (6) - S{LAYER}
12 - Sound reflection by English actor-politician (4) - {E}{CHO}
13 - Ignore norm modified for one who sells hardware (10) - IRONMONGER*
15 - A hot one is hard to deal with (6) - POTATO [CD]
17 - They are often in fine print (5) - TERMS [CD]
20 - As used to bind together bits recoiling (5) - STRAP<-
21 - Flee, abandoning a part of the airport (6) - RUNWAY [CD]
24 - Nasty annual pest destroyed (10) UNPLEASANT*
27 - Partly Aristotelian author (4) - ELIA [T]
29 - Writer leaves cheese for the formidable woman (6) - GORGON(-zola)
30 - Allocated to a ship ending on the rocks without head of navvies (8) - {A}{SS}IGNED*(-n)
31 - Extremely sleazy film producer is leaving Australian city (6) - {SY}{D(-is)NEY}
32 - Bridge players swarm over journalist held in high regard (8) - {ES}{TEEM}{ED}
DOWN
1 - Exchanges with a leader of Democrats held by the very French (6) - TR{A}{D}ES
2 - Trapped hundred — anything whatever (6) - {C}{AUGHT}
3 - Allows alien into the left section (4) - L{ET}S
4 - More certain on the French queen (5) - {SUR}{ER}
6 - “__ __ Thee, my blessed Saviour, I surrender …” (Hymn) (3,2) - ALL TO [CD]
7 - Village Officer, close to insanity, rages about sailors (8) - {VO}{Y}AGERS*
8 - Purser is disposed to give a jolt (8) - SURPRISE*
11 - Not frayed because it was never used? (6) - UNTORN [CD] (Correction - UNWORN)
14 - Combine goes up to circuit (4) - LOOP<-
16 - Thanks sent up to others when not moving (2,4) - AT<- REST
17 - Eyedrop? (4) - TEAR [CD]
18 - Pacifies fool making wrong usage (8) - {ASS}UAGES*
19 - Ready, having cut before? (8) - {PRE}{PARED}
22 - Opponents in prize assembly (6) - PL{EN}UM
23 - United too in sack (6) - B{AND}ED [CD]
25 - Leave with one’s love (5) - ELOPE [CD]
26 - Where chicks hang out (5) - NESTS [CD]
28 - They are shaken at the gambling table (4) - DICE [CD]