CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Flog new electrical units: they prevent crashes (3,5) 5. Beast overturned thin plate (6) 9. Horizontal beam irritated lawyers (8) 10. Received stolen goods enclosed in US bank (6) 12. Only fifty shed ten stone (4) 13. Best new all-in smash hit at Wimbledon (6,4) 15. Joe and Ken bought maybe about 50 Kipling stories (3,6,4) 19. In no time, Paul’s crudely spread this on walls (8,5) 23. Carbon (twice) and nitrogen mixed with one fuel in blend (10) 25. Passage in speech in Skye, say (4) 28. Cyril’s rewritten words (6) 29. Pile on farm that’s huge and rotting quietly (8) 30. Party’s in residence (2,4) 31. Innocent coloured when touring east border river (4-4)

Down

1. Female performer’s element (6) 2. German truck forfeits top-of-the-range renown (5) 3. Some original songs as well (4) 4. Southern French city takes in dead flat region (7) 6. Requisites noticed on the rise, including dollars (5) 7. Fool around - there’s plenty of ÐÐÐÐ 29 (4,5) 8. Genteel and refined, idly swims in Windermere, say (8) 11. Tin and silver create difficulty (4) 14. Offered only regular characters small charges (4) 15. Polar explorer’s target? One up to Russia in reality (4,5) 16. New one used by Parisian sister (3) 17. Impressive part of the 21 (4) 18 Paul came to be punished: “It’s my fault” (3,5) 20. Topless ladies? That’s a bad sign (4) 21. Imagine pious French priest touring Thailand (7) 22. What newborn chicks did - took furtive look (6) 24. Temporary stand-in edits most of column (5) 26. Part of Clyde estuary rejected as shabby (5) 27. Unattractive guy trained about 50 (4)