CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Is about to issue a short note that will reverberate (8) 5 Did a local employee exclude a graduate in the end? (6) 9 Come back to help the family after a verbal onslaught (8) 10 Use prop to support foundation, in principle (6) 11 A guard had to listen out over two directions (8) 13 Place to produce growth in good dramatic forest (6) 14 and 21 It’s not much to little Edward, but it all added up (6) 16 Treacle lacking an additive can be turned into wine (6) 19 A woman had a little time to take on a man, under cover (7) 20 Criticise a graduate for the state of his hat (6) 21 See 14 across 26 Two hands can join together to make things happen (6) 27 Made a contribution to charity at the same race (8) 28 Kept an account that tallied of trees that were cut down (6) 29 Had an excuse, and is certain to give satisfaction (8) 30 In the past, continue on board ship with imprisonment (6) 31 Enhance alternative title, having the last word, at the end (8)

DOWN

1 Recipe for a bowl suitable for a root vegetable (6) 2 Odds on beards of barley producing offshoots (6) 3 Highland town transformed into a magical world (6) 4 On time, can get first taste of a pill (6) 6 A bad role can be rewritten to become captivating (8) 7 Felt a party run into small bull-fighters in Spain (8) 8 Mean to get into management to place in office (8) 12 Found cold tea being poured out ... (7) 15 and 16 ... and tea served twice at a dance (3-3) 17 Requested action that could be attractive to a higher court (8) 18 It may tempt fate to cool down passion (8) 19 Small meters used on line in iron works (8) 22 Buck stops here in a reserve currency (6) 23 Is little Adelaide able to represent a large state? (6) 24 Reckon to work out a shape by design (6) 25 Dream up a new type of opening (6)