CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Note accepted by more pious innkeeper (8) 5. Like rackets Serena oddly designed with gut (6) 9. Ethnic sect beside Russian river (8) 10. Trainee pursues V&A hooligan (6) 12. One water-carrier, or another with no top (4) 13. Nasty secret about tense radical’s urban conformity (6,4) 15. Perhaps Matilda presides over party game (7,6) 19. Personalities engaged in boring monarch’s sport (6,7) 23. Pulled money out after student leaves, jobless (10) 25. Book used in Requiem Mass (4) 28. Treble let rip in panic (6) 29. Well-known old Ameri can replaces one in family (8) 30. Distant meteor explodes (6) 31. Get shot of plane? It’s on ground (8)

Down

1. Someone gaining illicit access for chopper (6) 2. Material university students supplied during half-term (5) 3. Garish lady regularly impresses Open University (4) 4. Revolutionary Castile able to bounce back (7) 6. Raise your glasses to a good person (5) 7. Yankee abandons basic lackey (9) 8. Contents of forty-niner’s pan like hen’s teeth (4,4) 11. Live without wife in valley (4) 14. Typically severe autocratic Russian initially (4) 15. It burns brilliantly, amusing me somehow (9) 16. Arab king’s floating menagerie (3) 17. Trouble following husband’s cold shower (4) 18. A Flight Lieutenant, say, in tremulous state (8) 20. Pack in time-consuming broadcast (4) 21. Normal hail storm (7) 22. Cut fruit covering top of young tree (6) 24. One’s in bed for trial run (5) 26. Painter Grandma’s son leaves green plants (5) 27. England captain loves being in arts centre (4)