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ACROSS

1 Clothes cupboard with a decorated border (8)

5 Flight that ends in landing (6)

9 Praise cook drinking coffee (8) 10 Starvation’s much greater around north (6)

12 Plaster covers this in wall at home (4) 13 Boy loves probing missiles and their sounds? (5,5)

15 Redesign vet’s office etc., giving value for money (4-9)

19 Relax with former police codebreaker in reorganisation (13)

23 Clever old England goalkeeper’s rating (4,6)

25 Rear half of loo fell away, exposing igneous rock (4)

28 Longed for close boxing contest (6)

29 It’s reaching a point where HM stops recording (8)

30 Profits from meadows variable rather than fine at first (6)

31 Soya product can be cooked with another legume (4,4)

DOWN

1 Fellows in principality briefly talk nonsense (6)

2 Cast are going to court to give a response (5)

3 Ceremony dealing with installing computer systems (4)

4 Scan this to see how to dress properly in pub? (3,4)

6 Hitch in east Humberside (5)

7 Bent nail may be due to twisted ring on top (9)

8 Final courses set up under pressure (8) 11 Old property that is cracking very loudly (4)

14 Top Russian rock star (4)

15 I’ve castle rebuilt and I have to accept it (4,2,3)

16 Thick pink paper covers article (3) 17 Excerpt from film ‘Speed’ (4)

18 Shed tears about a mere fluid in cheese plant (8)

20 Seafood starters served up in Barcelona (4)

21 Peace-keepers are touring Washington, oblivious (7)

22 Rough-edged dagger broken (6) 24 Spot daughter riding tense horse (5) 26 Pass on gold wrapping — it’s so long (5) 27 Adult in London? Child in Glasgow, more likely (4)