CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plagiarist’s work might be blotted (8) 5 Snipe’s habitat? (6) 9 Fighting lethargy (8) 10, 12 and 13 How people use bathrooms in secret (6,6,5) 16 Incarnation of Virginia taken in by a sailor (6) 17 and 20 Tipping runners giving secrets away (8,3,5) 21 Squirm when explosive document first appears (6) 23 Fasten door left at church (5) 25 Taking down during a board meeting (6) 28 Six can be capable of surviving (6) 29 Troubles I then get sorted out (8) 30 Had correspondence conclusively (6) 31 Money in trust of late (8)

DOWN

1 Cut-price fastener (4) 2 Chum holds key ring (4) 3 Used to fight formidable woman (9) 4 Old boy is to become an instrumentalist (6) 6 Topple a bit stupendously (5) 7 Arrangement of literati having three leaves (10) 8 Dirge needs rewriting as it had been planned again (10) 11 Take over fitting party in (5) 14 Am I unable to prise open this bridge? (10) 15 Relax and accept Italian is not difficult (4,2,4) 18 Eyeglasses Roget lent out (9) 19 Orange liqueur contains spirit (5) 22 Goddess took food, having taken chicken inside (6) 24 Have about 50 to cut into two equal parts (5) 26 Not used time after time (4)