CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Remain ruler of audience when putting on money (7) 5 Father’s given thanks for spaghetti, say (5) 11 Emotional warmth provided with major surgery when note sends alarm (4-11) 12 Fish club centre (4) 13 and 14 Alert excited male getting takeaway (5,4) 17 Ration union received during sort of strike (3-3) 18 How sports programme may go to last longer (7) 20 Baker takes up vocation as cleric in Scottish region (7) 22 Spreads out, says “please” briefly as introduction (6) 24 End Australia turned back in (4) 25 Hold tight when left in temporary accommodation (5) 26 Initially relish employment of artful dodge (4) 29 A line of our minds pans out in time and space (4-11) 30 Annoys five former partners (5) 31 Head park warden is disturbed before sunrise (7)

DOWN

2 Outsize number seen to follow the mill worker (3,6,6) 3 Heard to be as black as eye make-up (4) 4 Most elegant a challenge given after half done (7) 6 Help an opera (4) 7 Auld Nick may understand the lesser of two evils (3,5,3,4) 8 Lad goes to church to meet English composer (5) 9 Boss ten in artistic setting (6) 10 Stapler required to reassemble hymnbook (7) 15 Does parson get into drugs? (5) 16 Track with sinister design, perhaps, and initiate sinister conversation (5) 19 Some loudness was not in very good taste (1,3,3) 21 A novice found in some situation with seductive woman (6) 22 Discussion group is productive at start, moving from left to right (7) 23 Tales spread about electric vehicle (5) 27 Lazy and sunk in placid lethargy (4) 28 Feigned every odd discovery (4)