CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Around India, Clive is misconstrued as Polish? (8)

5. Start to collect work, including rare complete texts (6)

9. Bar girl carries clubs in the Open (8)

10. Mother drinks a gin, avoiding one big bottle (6) 12. Endure final (4)

13. Irish revolutionary appears in cruelly accurate cartoon (10) 15. Liberals work with comic who wants to get on in class? (6,7)

19. Frown after old boyfriend organised party for salon (6,7)

23. One following wretched miser in dire straits (2,8)

25. Ignoring the odds, middleman makes plan (4)

28. Writing style that’s inclined to show emphasis (6)

29. Outrage old citizen during a test (8)

30. Sewer that has a hole at the end (6)

31. Dorothy briefly disturbed bull as usual (8)

Down

1. Soft drink more expensive inside dome (6)

2. Sixth best short percussion instrument (5) 3. Money in Iran raised for refuge (4)

4. Some insult a native Ottoman ruler’s wife (7)

6. Old meat upset a US city (5)

7. It identifies user putting pressure on popular anaesthetic (3,6)

8. Balance reflects US TV awards bash (8)

11. Metal extracted from quartz in Colombia (4)

14. Northerner’s second shelter for livestock (4)

15. Same agent altered performer’s alias (5,4)

16. Green field fills whole

area (3)

17. I prepare large object of worship (4)

18. Old boy playing violin in stupor (8)

20. It covers fruit somewhere in the Isle of Man (4)

21. Have fun entering one in register (7)

22. Big cat guards a rare organ for making sounds (6)

24. Around hospital such birdsong would cause excitement (5)

26. Dehydrated, stopped operating across river (5)

27. Superior potty, quiet (4)