Puzzles of May 2025

Across

• 8 Wise men graduate alongside soldier (4)
• 9 Argumentative prisoners flipping the bird (3)
• 10 Setter finds shortened shadows in housing up North (5)
• 11 Hair on moggy, maybe, left rigidly inflexible (8)
• 12 Gold mines outrage Labour leaders and union's top brass (6)
• 13 Philosopher's outspoken hypocrisy (4)
• 15 Quiet long sound (5)
• 17 Eastern European fears lavatory contents (4)
• 18 Write about learner's surprise (4)
• 20 Put up with right instead of left in vote (5)
• 21 Once again, hurricane warning covers it (4)
• 22 That thing with church that causes irritation (4)
• 23 Meaty taste initially unsettles my French friend (5)
• 25 Hands on approach initially taken with vote fraud (4)
• 27 Those disturbed by large budget accommodation (6)
• 29 By March, a woven fabric (8)
• 31 Could be General Schwarzkopf's standards? (5)
• 32 Submachine gun putting out slime by the sound of it (3)
• 33 Listen and amaze yourself a bit on reflection (4)

Down

• 1 Japanese city not applicable to Spanish painter (6)
• 2 Nothing in king's beastly call (4)
• 3 Enclosure ram is kept in (4-2)
• 4 Give no introduction to stock wisecrack (4)
• 5 Bounce back from theocratic revolution lacking even aspects of faith (8)
• 6 Skinny lo-fi fringe members wearing Small & Medium (4)
• 7 Tell goat in disguise: "You can't cross here without paying!" (8)
• 14 Garden bird perched on cold rugby posts is a very little one (5)
• 16 Greek character joining the reservists (5)
• 17 Stay quiet about mother's accident (5)
• 19 Retiring extrovert? (8)
• 20 Sort out the balance in a sequel I edited (8)
• 24 Leaning after it, she fell down the rabbit hole having been made shorter (6)
• 26 Rhododendron and zinnia always look extremely attractive as they open (6)
• 28 Sod it! You taper off at the end! (4)
• 29 Endlessly common filth (4)
• 30 Silly mistake, whichever way you look at it (4)