Across:
1 Stick your neck out (TAKE A GAMBLE ON) for Nick (nick/steal = TAKE) Adams starting (‘Adams’ starting = A) up (= reversal indicator) magazine (magazine = mag = GAM-) and opening bureau (opening ‘bureau’ = -B-) with Leon (Leon = -LE ON) (TAKE A GAMBLE ON),
10 Keep up to speed (APPRISE) with a piper’s (a pipers = APPRISE) melody (= anagram indicator),
11 Magnificent (GRAND-) piano (-P-) – a (-A) (GRANDPA) similar type to 22 across (GRANDPA is similar to ‘grandad’),
12 Nice road (Nice/French ‘road’ = ‘rue’) goes around (= reversal indicator) (rue = EUR-) old (O-) (EURO) capital (capital/money = EURO),
13 Restless (ITCHY) in hotel (-H-) in strange (= anagram indicator) city (city = ITC-Y) (ITCHY),
15 Bar (LINE) queue (LINE),
17 Surprise (OH-) for Frenchman (Monsieur = -M) (OHM) essential to Resistance (electrical resistance = OHM),
19 The Inferno (hell) briefly (l) (‘hell’ without ‘l’ = HEL-) opens on Maundy Thursday (opens on ‘Maundy Thursday’ = -M-T) outside initial entrance? (initial ‘entrance’ = -E-) (HELMET) Taking the journey, this will go over your head! (HELMET),
21 Rob (rob = BRO-) Cook (= anagram indicator) and Kenneth (-KEN) (BROKEN) Shatter in the past (‘shatter’ in the past = shattered = BROKEN),
22 Father’s father (GRANDAD) is romantically involved with 33 down (GRANDAD is romantically involved with ‘gran’),
23 Raymond (R-AY) consuming a foreign (a = -UN-) whisky (-W-) (RUNWAY) – when you see this, you just know something is going to take-off (RUNWAY),
25 Unreal (unreal = NEURAL) novel (= anagram indicator) dealing with the nerves (NEURAL),
27 Ushered in (LED), as involved in subtle deception (involved in ‘subtle deception’ = LED),
29 Turns up (= reversal indicator), no parking (p) in April (‘April’ without ‘p’ = aril = LIRA) in old European capital (old capital/money = LIRA),
30 Adjust figures (RESET) for fallen (= anagram indicator) trees (trees = RESET),
31 Difficult (HARD) for daughters to get rid of guest (‘daughters’ get rid of ‘guest’ = dahr = HARD),
34 A (-A) Scott Joplin genre (rag = -GAR-) from America (-A-) that’s popular (in = NI-), rises (= reversal indicator) (NIAGARA) and falls (NIAGARA falls),
35 Make public (AIR-) and give out (emit = -TIME) about (= reversal indicator) (AIRTIME) how long the broadcast takes (AIRTIME),
36 It’s not available (it’s taken = TAKE N-) with duck (-O) and 14 down? (‘chances’ = CHANCES) (TAKE NO CHANCES) Don’t bet on it! (TAKE NO CHANCES).
Down:
2 Gear (clothes = APPAREL) for a (A-) father (-PP-) to heartless spirit from The Tempest (heartless spirt from Shakespeare’s The Tempest/ ‘Ariel’ = -AREL) (APPAREL),
3 Describes 7 down (EVIL describes ‘old nick’) and that’s not good (EVIL),
4 Got the (got the = GHETTO) doctor (= anagram indicator) for those in rundown part of the city (GHETTO),
5 Frenchmen (Messieurs = M-M) embrace Freud’s concept (-EGO-) and second theory (second ‘theory’ = -H-) (MEGOHM) offering a lot more of what’s in 17 across (a lot more ‘ohm’ = MEGOHM),
6 Cash advance (LOAN) for removing mice from coal mine (removing ‘mice’ from ‘coal mine’ = oaln = LOAN),
7 Daredevil (bold) losing the head (‘bold’ without ‘b’ = OLD) is going to local prison (local ‘prison’ = NICK) (OLD NICK) with the man downstairs (devil / OLD NICK),
8 Be firm as a matter of policy (TAKE A HARD LINE) with Nick locally (nick/steal = TAKE) addressing summit (‘addressing’ summit = A) at 31 across (‘hard’ = HARD) and 15 across (‘line’ = LINE) (TAKE A HARD LINE),
9 Rent the spare room (TAKE IN A LODGER) to Katie (Katie = TAKE I-) Rock (= anagram indicator) and Harry (nag) Short (g) (‘nag’ without ‘g’ = -N A) linked to border (“border” = “boarder” = LODGER) report (= anagram indicator) (TAKE IN A LODGER),
14 Carol (chant) is short (t) (‘chant’ without ‘t’ = CHAN-) for Clare’s (CE’s = -CES) (CHANCES) lottery tickets perhaps (CHANCES),
16 Two thirds of 27 down (two thirds of ‘legato’ = LEGA-) by law (-L) (LEGAL) approved by the courts (LEGAL),
18 Request synonymous with major employer (request synonymous with major employer/army = ORDER) picked up by The Bar (bar ORDER),
20 Thirsty without this (‘thirsty’ without ‘this’ = rty = TRY) to test (TRY),
21 Meets coming out of basement (‘meets’ coming out of ‘basement’ = ban = BAN) bar (BAN),
24 New leader (‘new’ leader = N-) from Asian country (Iran = -IR-AN-) admits victory (-V-) for America (-A) (NIRVANA) could be ideal, in stately way? (transcendent state/idyllic state = NIRVANA),
26 Get the message (REALISE) travelling (= anagram indicator) Israel (Israel = REALIS-) and Spain (-E) (REALISE),
27 Let go a (let go a = LEGATO) hammer (= anagram indicator) smoothly (LEGATO),
28 Director (D-) from trust initially (‘trust’ initially = -T-) involved in each (E-ACH) (DETACH) rip off (DETACH),
32 Receipts (TAKE) for all the starters with sides today (TAKE starts/begins the clues on the sides of today’s grid),
33 Tracy left Cary Grant (‘Tracy’ left ‘Cary Grant’ = argn = GRAN) in the old folks home perhaps (GRAN).