CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Sail on this for English nuts etc (8)

5. Run into a bogus retreat (6)

9. A poet wielding large axes creates fury (8) 10. Note given out by teacher causing anxiety (6) 12. The Spanish start to suffer deficit (4)

13. Cow briefly goes over to rear of byre, until now (10)

15. CO2, say, naive head office employs around Georgia (10,3)

19. Sus cryptic way to describe Bolivian perhaps (5,8)

23. Spread a roll below versatile player (3-7)

25. Stir to cook (2-2) 28. Writer’s going round to stay in the same place (6) 29. Poisonous compound derived from a protein (8)

30. This evening’s not about close-fitting garment (6) 31. Ride round in the morning with new plant (8)

Down

1. Stamp-collecting mentioned quickly, with little interest? (6) 2. Automatons without British origins (5)

3. Grind two-thirds of cereal (4)

4. Four-by-four observed rounding ninth junction (7)

6. Charlotte’s finally given up fight (3-2)

7. Ron agreed to play keyboard instrument (4,5) 8. Butcher uses same person to work on joints? (8)

11. Some types of money in Latin America (4)

14. Yours truly has quiet engagement? (4)

15. Rugby takes place in setting that’s very tiring (9)

16. Shade house in odd places (3)

17. Footwear’s a hit (4) 18. Writer, for example, is found in English street (8)

20. Eastern US state abandons a pit (4)

21. Part of flight that’s hottest on competitors (2-5) 22. Single man without a grave (6)

24. Patent completed on time (5)

26. I’m going round the bend after work – this calms me (5)

27. Wind – the first of cheap fuel (4)