CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Amount of information needed to give music event a miss – about time too! (8) 5 Fights and fights back over first crust (6) 9 Energy drink is keynote on circuit (8) 10 Rustic riot? The answer’s a lemon (6) 12 Workmate goes roughly three miles after pass (9) 13 Aidan has operation to reverse gender (5) 14 Charlie takes radio mash-up to heart (6) 17 Synthetic fibre that’s not out for long (5) 20 Ornamental stone a lab removed, revealing flower (5) 21 This girl is at the controls among volunteers (6) 24 Creates space around wrath and good hope, for example (5) 25 Frame, then inform on, plan to open retail outlet (3,2,4) 28 First person comes up with flowers (6) 29 Link soap drama to film director (8) 30 Puts letters in sequence for incantations (6) 31 Program to finish at nine with supplementary section (8)

DOWN

1 Spoilsport is king on island (6) 2 Deceptive delivery produced like a search engine? (6) 3 Boy got out of bed to make porage (5) 4 Slender girl to object (5) 6 California: morning has broken on iconic mountain (9) 7 Does this dog like bubbles in his beer? (8) 8 Keeps it up whenever we object to being involved in slurs (8) 11 Cancel minister’s go-ahead over last resource (6) 15 A dusty bee seen when it hasn’t rained for a while (1,3,5) 16 Hate to have made half measure of trial (6) 18 West carries out copies of charity magazine (3,5) 19 A touch can be put on grain, but it’ll cost you (2,1,5) 22 Pursued pure sound (6) 23 Inscrutable character offered bone distributed by military store (6) 26 Unfortunate setback to model of military formation (5) 27 Level window by inserting leading edge of lathe (5)