Irregular Crossword (October 2006)

Across:

4: It's not purple, but I guess the rest fits. (9)
8: The only correctly identified member of the family by name... or is it? (9)
9: Love at first snuggle... (10)
10: Would it be a close relative of Donphan? [Think real-life...] (7)
11: Bubble? How ironic. [The answer to this is actually a Pokémon, and this has to do with numbers.] (6)
13: Kadabra, Psyduck, Slowpoke, Lickitung... [No, this is not a Pokérap reference.] (7)
15: So close to being an anagram of the theme... (6)
17: The females' neck has apparently become fuzzier. (5)
20: Related to the theme. (3)
23: Yay! (8)
26: Would be nice with Team Galaxy. (8)
27: Has a possessed new evolutionary stage. (7)
28: I'm siiiiiinging in the rain... [Okay, forget about the singing.] (6)
30: TM73 (11)
32: Alas, its counterpart still outdoes it. (6)
33: I guess it decreases in usefulness now that we have #377. (7)
34: Opposites attract, don't they? [This is based on a very similar premise to 11 across.] (6)
35: Mickey? [Yes, this is referring to the first Mickey you thought of.] (6)

Down:

1: Masculine version of upcoming song? [It's not the song that is upcoming, it's just a confusing sentence.] (7)
2: Ewww... (9)
3: @_@ [Okay, forget about the smiley! Well, it does slightly relate to it, but the main point of this clue is the character @, not the smilie. Also, this is a rather far-fetched clue, as in that it relates to something which then relates to something else, which is the answer] (9)
5: Spicy... (11)
6: Dynamite, ROTFLMAO [Yes, dynamite... not explosions, dynamite.] (5)
7: Signal Beam, Silver Wind and Sludge Bomb are special now, yay. (8)
12: So many people took pleasure in its torture... [They didn't take pleasure in it BECAUSE it was being tortured, but because of the method...] (6)
14: Ignorance... (7)
16: Game Freak is finally getting things halfway right again. [Yes, it's that simple. They used to get it right, then got it wrong, now got it right again. So what is it, and what is one of the most important things about it?] (6)
18: Heh, they've got to have a lot of money to afford it... (12)
19: ...or perhaps they're earning it all in semi-honest ways by making people obsessed with these? [Okay, they're not obsessed with THESE, but they're obsessed with what they put in them.] (8)
21: No nickname, eh? (9)
22: a.k.a Dodge Unknown Nun. [Anagram...] (12)
24: Bear, join, undo and increase. (5)
25: Persian fan? (8)
29: The theme prefers to fly. [...instead of doing this.] (8)
31: Funny it wouldn't be bigger. (7)