CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Outline key bone shown in deer at odd points (8)

5. Drinking haunt found in sweltering Australian city (6)

9. Team with Basil’s wife picked up a container for metals (8)

10. Artist is inspired by exotic lake in Indian state (6)

12. With sun gone, drain large jug for water (4)

13. See trio put off a ballet dancer’s moves (10)

15. Secure options devised to get diamond, say (8,5)

19. Mate with a grunt possibly I have found briefly quarrelsome (13)

23. Place supporting a key player? (5,5)

25. Unsightly mark seen in worthless carpets (4)

28. Brought up or torn down in hearing (6)

29. Very severe man in Rome beginning to underline austere period (8)

30. Note longings in respected figures in a field (6)

31. Beer levy disputed in

East Yorkshire town (8)

Down

1. Curtail here undressed port employee (6)

2. Writer Nevil in film, reportedly (5)

3. Largely regretting destruction (4)

4. Cocktail, thing that might be struck in Italy (7)

6. Love times to observe daisy (5)

7. How a swimmer might excel in one go? (2,1,6)

8. Design on paper shift (8)

11. On a regular basis, took foul Asian food (4)

14. Consider some crude employee (4)

15. Guy in pact surprisingly showing combative nature (9)

16. Choose time after work (3)

17. Outwardly sleek Indian gets part of a fruit (4)

18. Unusually mad peer defending prince that’s treated indulgently (8)

20. Three points about start of this practice session for cricketers (4)

21. Go in sea haphazardly and fret? (7)

22. Plucky Greek given to humour with leader gone (6)

24. Singer Billy in large amount of blue? (5)

26. Cover empty fish basket made of wicker (5)

27. Muggins scheduled to pocket small amount of money (4)