CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Never stops, like U.S. car that’s been stripped? (8) 5. Judge bumps into earl on way back (6) 9. Old boy ferrets in untidy drawer ... all his clothes (8) 10. Son interferes in marriage agreement (6) 12. Dry fruit and ice cream (4) 13. Most of corps been fed in mess with this? (6,4) 15. He lends old car fixed for people in power cut? (6-7) 19. They need aid to pick up suspect had for trial (4,2,7) 23. Wartime group is infiltrating engineers’ position (10) 25. Special gastronomic ingredient used by Rick Stein (4) 28. Mail, for example, implicated king in love affair (6) 29. English reporters invade heart of resort for coffee (8) 30. Young eager servant making abject nods primarily (3,3) 31. Loosely agree to stock English National Trust drink (5,3)

Down

1. Watch out! Kevin’s startingto hit hard (6) 2. Fragment of ‘Murderer Unmasked’ broadcast again (5) 3. Bait line on river in Yorkshire (4) 4. U-boats fuel just below the surface (7) 6. Church meeting absorbed in controversy, no doubt (5) 7. Segregate fancy seasonal fare (6,3) 8. They swim like brothers round Fair Head (8) 11. Move very slowly in Switzerland (4) 14. Open sunny door now and then (4)

15, 16. Today scurrying harvest mice eat last of seeds (9,3) 16. See 15 Down 17. Iranian money’s up in den (4) 18. Irregular army chap dispensed pills here ... (8) 20. ... to cure contemptible person, say (4) 21. Person who charges a cold customer, not Tom (7) 22. Temple to a deity in suburbs of Patna (6) 24. Young reporter in S Africa maybe needs it in d ives (5) 26. Composer’s inventory contains last letter (5) 27. Head off to clear out drive (4)