cryptic crossword

Yesterday’s solution ACROSS:

1 Deselect. 5 Masque. 9 Bandanna. 10 Strait. 12 Idea. 13 Concertina. 15 Power steering. 19 Security guard. 23 Admittance. 25 ASBO. 28 Aikido. 29 Home runs. 30 Eerily. 31 Estimate.

DOWN:

1 Debris. 2 Singe. 3 Load. 4 Contour. 6 Altar. 7 Qualified. 8 Estrange. 11 Scot. 14 Ewer. 15 Pacemaker. 16 Sty. 17 Elan. 18 Escapade. 20 Teal. 21 Geckoes. 22 Mousse. 24 Tidal. 26 Scuba. 27 Yeti.

ACROSS

1 News magnate chases short

Hibernian author (4,7)

9 Reboot computer’s front-end

potentially takes days (7)

10 Humble rank briefly limits

Bill (7)

11 Look both ways (3)

12 Help to keep roller in good

condition for attack (3,4)

13 Golf in Essex requires subtle

skill (7)

14 Remains of firewood (3)

15 Heard Scandinavian stoop (5)

17 Mainly puzzling burial place

(5)

18 Girl who performed on ice

with Christopher D? (5)

20 American tucks into his

fancy food (5)

22 Morrison’s transport (3)

24 Recite angler’s problem? (4,3)

25 Slight small building society

maybe (7)

26 Paintings are not finished on

time (3)

27 Mechanical unit replacing

energy in sort of 9 (7)

28 Perhaps a dish girl sent back

after soldier (7)

29 Take away old supporter, one

seized by judge (11)

DOWN

1 Being alike, their angle can be

adjusted (15)

2 Awful boring ad, not good,

located in Hull (7)

3 Irish Sea seals stuck in mud (5)

4 A gain specifies English penalty to block leftists (9)

5 Like grain cultivated with

oxygen and carbon? (7)

6 Judge disallows this head case

in every broadcast (7,8)

7 Composition supplied by

Brahms on a tambourine (6)

8 This prince, gouty, replaces

‘nutty George’ (6)

16 By that very fact, it emerges

from lips of actors (4,5)

18 Twelve people not all fair about first of remanded men (6)

19 Dance infuriating Westport

right away (3-4)

21 Cold drink I created, working

without recipe (4,3)

23 Architectural style of new

rebuilt manor (6)

25 Celeb entertains one part of

flight (5)