Clues
Across (extra letters in wordplay shown in lower case)
1 Excited at extremely tasty beefcake? uPATTY
UP + AT + T(ast)Y
6 Perch alongside brown nuthatches SITTAn
SIT + TAN
10 In Numbers, what God is said to have created reignites fury INTEGERS (+i)
REIGNITES (anagram); reference to Stephen Hawking quote "God created the integers"
11 Northern worker's eastern bread NANt
N + ANT
12 Automobile gets a steer -- it contains some jacks CARANoX
CAR + AN OX; fish genus containing jacks
13 Country's unrestrained (but qualification restricts it) GfREECE
FREE in GCE (UK qualification commonly called 'A-level')
14 Terminate my employment: squandering 1,000 is career's high point sACME
'SACK ME' less K (1000)
15 Enthusiastic servant MAiD
two definitions
18 Small loop results from network test getting attention with technical back-end PEARLIN
EAR + (technica)L in PING
19 Action film actor shortly left item for TV ARnIEL
ARNIE + L (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
21 Without child-friendly rating: too twisted! WOUaND
w/o + U + AND
22 TV covers Dennis regularly in a nervous manner TENSELlY
regular letters of dEnNiS covered by TELLY
23 Which computers once ran idle? DOsS
two definitions
24 Lane perhaps is found at end of patch of ground LOtIS
IS after LOT
25 Shaking unclothed derrières is relatively strange EERIER (+r)
(d)ERRIERE(s) (anagram)
29 Sort of tax always put to head of employment department NIEVeRE
NI (National Insurance) + EVER + E(mployment)
30 For a Scotsman it's no second half of 19s NnAE
second half of ANTENNAE (ariels)
31 From a place in W India pick one from yellow birds, for example CANARESEg
CANARIES less I + eg.
32 Earnest saint laments KEENSt
KEEN + St.
33 Person with fair complexion's superficially beautiful on 1920×1080 picture BLONhD
B(eautifu)L + ON + HD
Down
PAIN less I + G(rub)
2 Top-level tennis player commonly returns a great distance AFAR
RAFA returning (nickname of Rafael Nadal)
3 Fit to dance every night, heads turned TONED
TO + D(ance) E(very) N(ight) turning
4 Will's lure twitches oddly TICE
odd letters of TwItChEs; Shakespearean word for 'entice' (lure)
5 Contents of eleven letters ordered like A-Z? STREET-LEVEL
anagram of (e)LEVE(n) LETTERS; reference to A-Z street maps
6 Part of UK in uprising about a set of maritime regulations? SEA LAW
WALES upwards around A
7 Idiots once soaring out of control IGNAROS
anagram of SOARING; old word for 'idiots'
8 Monitor incorrect arrangement of squares TROMINOS
anagram of MONITOR
9 Goes upstairs and also cleans dust in odd places ASCENDS
odd positions in AlSo ClEaNs DuSt
15 Town house at front of lane in imitative style MATLOCK
AT + L(ane) in MOCK (imitative style, as in 'Mock Tudor')
16 Small circles are found around flower coming up AREOLAE
ARE around ALOE going up
17 It's like sacking some of the SS, I announced HESSIAN
some of 'tHE SS I ANnounced'
20 Exerts influence on those finishing school not having the top grade LEVERS
LEAVERS less A
23 This dog's dinner, half unfinished work DINGO
half of DINner + GO
26 Look up and sway REEL
LEER upwards
27 Win approaching, putting head down EARN
NEAR with 'head' lower
28 Rip fashionable clothes off REND
(t)REND(y)
Notes
Although my phone uses a disappointing right-angled triangle symbol, hopefully the increasing-height rectangles and their associated complaint "I've only got one bar!" are sufficiently widespread for the theme to be reachable.
Potential ambiguities have been pointed out to me: in 15 across AvID is a plausible alternate solution, and in 32 across 'S' is an alternative abbreviation for Saint, leaving no extra letter. The former I might have altered had I not been on holiday. The latter I was more inclined to leave as is, on the grounds that 'St.' is in my experience the overwhelmingly more common abbreviation outside of church Latin and Listener clues.
The setter gets a solid four bars and intermittent 4G in his flat.
Potential ambiguities have been pointed out to me: in 15 across AvID is a plausible alternate solution, and in 32 across 'S' is an alternative abbreviation for Saint, leaving no extra letter. The former I might have altered had I not been on holiday. The latter I was more inclined to leave as is, on the grounds that 'St.' is in my experience the overwhelmingly more common abbreviation outside of church Latin and Listener clues.
The setter gets a solid four bars and intermittent 4G in his flat.
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