Across
1 Angry (5)
3 A long, heavy piece of metal or wood used in building houses, buildings, bridges, etc (4)
4 Responsibility (4)
7 Thickset (5)
8 Essential; unavoidable; obligatory (13)
11 Absolutely required (12)
15 Novice (4)
16 Complete opposite of someone or something (10)
17 Diverse (6)
18 To entice (4)
19 Complementary (10)
20 To impel or constrain to action (4)
22 Surrender (10)
23 Lacking in brightness (3)
24 To prod or urge as with a long, pointed stick (4)
26 To look forward to something (10)
30 To help someone do something wrong or illegal (4)
31 To cover, as if with dots (3)
32 To broaden (5)
Down
1 Difficult to fathom or understand; mysterious (11)
2 To pull up by the roots (9)
3 Favortism, prejudice towards a certain person or idea (4)
5 Give the letters of a word or name (5)
6 Exclusive right (11)
9 Unselective; not making or not based on careful distinctions (14)
10 Before the war; especially, before the American Civil War (10)
12 Enrapture (8)
13 Lie about someone (8)
14 Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange (6)
21 To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate (4)
22 Inflexible (5)
25 Prone (3)
27 Pull using a rope or chain (3)
28 Wrath (3)
29 Historical period (3)