CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 and 8 down To summarise: be off to house said to have missing floor (3,1,4,5,5)

5 Exhilarating drugs for those on these, skint? (6)

9 Tina goes back into discount supermarket with Grand National hero (8)

10 Scar to disfigure Cuban statesman (6)

12 Sweet tone spoken by boring group of people (6)

13 Attractively plump boy comes to extremely scrawny end (5)

16 This man sees sea eagles at tip of Tiree (6)

17 Eat less when wealthy as Marlene (8)

20 Prod soot sprinkled around wedge to maintain opening (4-4)

21 German nerd revealed certain pattern of behaviour (6)

23 Excess water left in meat (5)

25 Pa’s led up the garden path when he’s lost his faith (6)

28 Have a gut feeling about the first introduction to Arctic people (6)

29 Joking talk that’s frowned on when old (8)

30 Team finally arrive at loch (6)

31 Listener corrupted in part of Ireland (8)

DOWN

1 Is central heating needed in country of central Africa? (4)

2 Neat DIY to initially work at (4)

3 Heather found on some Western Isles by students of tongues (9)

4 Be aware of spending overtime in pleasant surroundings (6)

6 Criticises alloy core in designs for ... (5)

7 ... DIY projects, perhaps, that displayed previous stresses (10)

8 See 1 across 11 Undress from head to foot for journeys (5)

14 HQ to leave Antarctic, say, and go ... (4,6)

15 and 19 ... over the moon to be at the North Pole (2,3,2,3,5)

18 Aeschylus, for example, was rubbish at reading (9)

19 See 15

22 Record’s not arrived in time to show beginner’s status (1-5)

24 Energy resulting from energy loss in trace to source (5)

26 Starve quickly (4)

27 Swerve – direction cut off – turn and swerve (4)