CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Tripe cooked in, say, bananas? That’s harsh (8) 5. Day in Paris wasted in risky stretch of river (6) 9. Game with one left on board last to start (4,4) 10. Cutter tried frantically to go round duck (6) 12. Period that’s long? Not entirely (4) 13. Lose one’s cool with TV investor, making bloomer (10) 15. Do business with NI politician, Labour member? (5,8) 19. Further matter with Republican in my native land (6,7) 23. They press small clubs to defend squad (5,5) 25. Man, for example, is somewhat misleading (4) 28. Bray man beginning to eat fruit (6) 29. Job for shop assistant rare in Docklands area (8) 30. Gallery concealed overdraft until now (2,4) 31. Youth hit golf balls from here on range, flailing (8)

Down

1. Irish county’s missing leader constantly (6) 2. Dance permitted round lake in Pennsylvania (5) 3. Archbishop of York’s given up cloak (4) 4. Apprentice drops in peg (7) 6. Dread moving reptile (5) 7. Good character, say, enters Trinity, drunk (9) 8. Making three things, he and I work with this muscle (8) 11. Cover piano in hospital (4) 14. Pointer on rooftop? That sounds pointless (4) 15. Flyer was first across river as proof of ownership (5,4) 16. You forget about such mysterious craft (3) 17. German loves keeping dry (4) 18. Huge success, this broadcast about US army unit (5,3) 20. Choice of successive notes for string (4) 21. Remove bottle from runner, veering (7) 22. Little work accepted by very short church worker (6) 24. Average temperature is indicated (5) 26. Smart fraud (5) 27. Candid old writer (4)