CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plenty of nuts nut provides for press title (8)

5 Cry half-heartedly? It doesn’t apply at Smiths’ wedding venue (6)

9 Drop in temperature experienced on awesome loch (8)

10 and 13 It’s the one good thing about rescuing shipwreck’s darling (6,5)

12 Zebra, for example may result from hybridisations (9) 13 see 10

14 Feline that could, if brought up differently, become canine (6)

17 Silver messed with gemstone (5)

20 Mischievous character abandons benefit of clergy, say, leading to absence of discord (5)

21 Hoity-toity boy I would initially aggravate (2-2-2)

24 Utter, utter clip (5)

25 It’s chaos or an image of excessive devotion to work (9)

28 Act with chief of territory (6)

29 I try Ikea for conjuring up Japanese speciality (8)

30 Being more of a daredevil brings home the bacon (6)

31 Ten years of not placing limits results in a state of moral decline (8)

DOWN

1 Jeer at company that’s into making Native American basket (6)

2 and 3 Exhibitionist nearly offers vote without actually counting (4,2,5)

4 Sonar involved in fire-raising (5)

6 Conservative element back sentry (9)

7 Fast yacht needs to tilt propshaft at island and ... (8)

8 ... reverse agreement on viewpoint of another island (8)

11 The overweight are likely to be found in Belgian city (6)

15 Boy in reek wrongly told to get lost (2,3,4)

16 Information about the elderly is very precious (6)

18 Misfit was so rude it hurt (8)

19 Predicaments that produce diabolical mad smile (8)

22 Moniker fashionable only by description (2,4)

23 Kind of communism that’s wet about second nation (6)

26 Church land discovered in jungle belt (5)

27 Girl sees method of operation used by republicans (5)