CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Jersey, say, has sun on verges and plants (8)

5 Calm place with support to cover start of crisis (6)

9 Highly creative pair foil criminal in charge (8)

10 Craig is excited about large edible bulb (6)

12 Unattractive fool losing money lately on vacation (4)

13 Uninspiring name facing set of diners? That’s very poor (10)

15 Parent yearns to keep stage for one with fragile pins? (5-4-4)

19 How one might count seconds incorporating the latest? (2-2-3-6)

23 German cook cultivated a bushy shrub (4,6)

25 Two notes for vaulted part of a roof (4)

28 Spouses come together in these workers’ groups (6)

29 Brief description host formulated after break (8)

30 First sign of these feeble types in clothes of woollen cloth (6)

31 Rough layer loosely covering article (8)

DOWN

1 Excuse from clubs over work in public (3-3)

2 Question both sides in spiral shape (5)

3 Most of group at home has joint of meat (4)

4 Be nosy about computer having greater importance (7)

6 Tale’s to be modified a minimal amount (5)

7 Worries about scientific site beginning to examine type of broccoli (9)

8 Reduce jacket in diamante about to be put in box (8)

11 Way to switch parts in protest (4)

14 Correct part of planned itinerary (4)

15 Investigator is flawed making leader of force tense (9)

16 Actor Herbert, northern Italian resident, no poet (3)

17 Bitterness, reportedly, in old Roman region (4)

18 Overcome upcoming American on rare horse (8)

20 Dash close to some U.S. city over November (4)

21 Naive woman for all to see beset by breakdown of engine (7)

22 Something worn by rector over year in room by church (6)

24 Had to get inducted (lacking credit) (5)

26 Companion probing valuable material, earthy pigment (5)

27 Observe pimple (4)