CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Footwear affected by gruelling training (4,4) 5 Saga rich in coverage of mushroom (6) 9 One trying to prove right is unable to receive sorted mail (8) 10 Collapses when left in cesspools (6) 12 How present company may stick together (6) 13 Unceasingly bashed and beat up its legendary queen (5) 16 Please take LSD to become calm (6) 17 Hedging about fast bunch of people (8) 20 Spawn developed in green den (8) 21 Behave nicely when resident in Italian city (6) 23 Established without opposition corruption of one giving out illegal drugs (5) 25 Vows to be dressed on board (6) 28 Freewheels with a deposit in expenses (6) 29 Biological classification of duty being performed with love and limited money (8) 30 Copper’s texted farewell (3,3) 31 I repress unrest that breathes in and out (8)

DOWN

1 Black ice goes green (4) 2 Speech about pink rock with no beginning (4) 3 Oban Mac I’d disguise as one from South East Asia (9) 4 Root vegetable produces something guys put on their hair? (6) 6 Take tea out, we hear, from wartime camps, rising to big social occasions (5) 7 Trying to follow CD, they say, in dress for play (6,4) 8 They have come to grief through articles worn on dress-down Friday, perhaps (10) 11 Upper class in position of owing money at first-time appearance (5) 14 Pipe dances being arranged so they can be added on at the end (10) 15 Air freight necessitates land vehicle to go down quiet track (5,5) 18 Solves mystery appearance of egg in consomme (5,4) 19 Whole world renounces higher education for poetry (5) 22 Look out for buzzer about fighting (6) 24 Load bearer starting off to return in oldfashioned style (5) 26 and 27 Two couples in favour, verbally, of mockery towards bespectacled (4,4)