Harpy's Weekend Crossword

Across

1. Aquatic mammals disturbing men at sea (8)

5. Fruit with no variety? (6)

9. Our sugar a remedy partly, back it (8)

10. Festival in area with trees scattered around (6) 12. Bird left boat during flood (4) 13. Fish that bites, apparently (7) 17. Share speech omitting opening (6) 18. Holds nothing in broken tin-cans (8)

20. A Socratic composition can be a puzzle (8)

21. Experienced person right behind theatre platform (6)

23. Poem starting easily with two animals (7)

24. Harpy stood for election in Middle East country (4)

28. Repels deranged diseased persons (6)

29. Sweet food made with rice and mace (3,5)

30. My nose gets agitated at all this currency (6)

31. Recites around circle and gets mysterious (8)

Down

1. The safe place for moving in La Penitence? (6,4)

2. Census takers not starting to become parts of fractions (10)

3. Territory taken under Russian flag, initially (4)

4. Make a mistake with mission (6)

6. Genuine things left after death in landed property (4,6)

7. Initiate nuclear attack, taking out alliance (4)

8. Nobleman almost ahead of time (4)

11. A professional takes on name for protection (5)

14. Upset soup in hearty riotous celebration at home (5,5)

15. This home-made drink is last of lager immersed in two types of alcohol (6,4)

16. Not starting good eating can still make one enormous (10)

19. Man swallowed stirred gin and became a swinger (5)

22. Candles left out in arrangement for events with tangos (6)

25. Some Paris luminaries in poor part of city (4)

26. Health resort with name of bridge (4)

27. The south bed is for the man from Edinburgh (4)