CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
1. I felt poorly — I’m close to the allotted span (8) 5. Small envelope put outside a church (6) 9. Creature roaming all over the place overwhelms son (8) 10. Chain car (6) 12. Hesitate to ignore western state (4) 13. Early transport device steered with pole (10) 15. Game bloke in shade’s Polish (5,4,4) 19. C heck pink (revised version) (13) 23. Vote potentially free under new leader of miners (10) 25. Architect’s flyer (4) 28. Liquor’s grand apparently — knock back first half only (6) 29. Celebrate this by imbibing a third bubbly? (8) 30. Fairly smoothly (6) 31. Some contents of shell, say, good with cooked goose finally (3,5)
Down
1. Trick upset a hotel cleaner (6) 2. Roughly figure out this composition with trio (5) 3. Note conservation body’s portable shelter (4) 4. Wrongly interpret bad dreams about India (7) 6. Defence in court from individual after jumping bail (5) 7. Buffoon who in Paris follows Lehar, playing note (9) 8. Spoil effort to accommo date commercial compromise (5-3) 11. It sounds like I am indebted to a state (4) 14. Daughter is about to make record (4) 15. Document holder that won’t last long in court? (9) 16. Incomplete list of courses for crew (3) 17. The odds are on it beginning to rain (4) 18. Stop meeting Public Records Office scoundrel (8) 20. Offensive lush (4) 21. Ignoramus in government is somewhat entertaining (7) 22. Substance produced by 9 unknown in war-torn Yemen (6) 24. Drive away quietly during part of film (5) 26. Forearm supporters in violent raid on Irish leader (5) 27. Upwardly-mobile left-wing Tories cook? (4)