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Thanks, Malone - I always feel uneasy putting the answers in unless I can see them clearly.

I also couldn't get Petrograd, and didn't like the obscurity of tank
= Saladin. Having seen the answer here I've looked online and it seems this is incorrect as well as obscure, the Saladin had wheels and not tracks and so is not a tank, it was an armoured car.

Stuck on:
10d Coming across page, not fond of Shelley? The exact opposite (10).
a?t?p???s

20a Wickedness in dog suggested? (10)
?r?n???i?g. Could be 'wrongdoing' but I can't see the 'dog suggested'.

22d One is taken in by a most peculiar philosophy (6). ?a?i??
Maoism? Taoism?

anti p odes

doing is an anagram of in dog, so "wrong" doing would be "in dog"

taoism - anagram "a most" around i

Thanks ChrisE, would never have got 20a, a sort of anagram without obvious anagram indicator.

Agree. I think the setter probably thought it was clever. Perhaps hand her/ him a set of clogs.

33d brings up one of my current pet hates. The word TROVE is actually an adjective meaning found or discovered (from its French origins). In English, it has (until recently) had only one use, in the phrase TREASURE TROVE (discovered treasure). It now seems that journalists are starting to use TROVE as a noun meaning, in effect, treasure or a hoard of something valuable. When I have written to editors to complain, the reply has been too bad that's the way it is now, language evolves etc. etc. So look out for a trove of this and a trove of that.

Parallelogram, thanks. I found your information interesting, but was slightly surprised to read that 'journalists are starting to use TROVE as a noun..'. It was the 'starting' that puzzled me a little as 'trove, noun' is in my Oxford Dictionary of English, third edition. That's from 2010, so that usage of the word has obviously been accepted in some quarters for quite a while. It's defined as 'a store of valuable or delightful things', and I expect that's how most people would use the word.

The argument about language 'evolving' is interesting, it always is!

In my Shorter OED, printed in 1973, the entry for ‘trove’ reads “short for treasure trove, in the sense of a ‘valuable find’ 1888”.
So the usage as a noun seems to date from at least 1888.