CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Adores military vessels with secondary alteration (8)

5 Nothing’s removed from post about ubiquitous drug (6)

9 Psychic who shifts the plate (8) 10 Reaction to test help of tiny marine creature (6)

12 Stay off alcohol so long as it’s not raining (3,3)

13 Debonair uncle involved in rescue (5)

16 Daily working with ferryman (6)

17 Guy visits medic with sick baboon (8)

20 Bean starting to grow in second, when ... (6-2)

21 ... master puts beans back into large bottle (6)

23 Distributed when party was in front (5)

25 Rouse Scots who are gone, you know (6)

28 Come to a small hill (6)

29 Acrobat tumbles on last trapeze at annual blues contest (4,4)

30 Winter sports enthusiasts take Gael on board (6)

31 Cheer and riot as come to close (5,3)

DOWN

1 You and I heartlessly toss weak characters (4)

2 Worker loses face in part (4)

3 Freely help, obey and run round? That’s an exaggeration (9)

4 Poignant scene contrived at shop (6)

6 Journeys result in minor accidents (5)

7 Feed quantities for small birds drawn up by chemical processes (10)

8 Has pummel done harm to pseudonym? (3,2,5)

11 Finally, but not finally, produces maps (5)

14 Mark makes sketches where both sides are the same (5,5)

15 May king’s mistress on island be a dish? (10)

18 Reasoning that local speech is first and second scurrilous (9)

19 Glasgow union meets delay at prison camp (5)

22 Silver was included in rent for Indian writer (6)

24 Put on alternative presenter (5)

26 and 27 Pay attention in order to shoot Scottish nut, we hear (4,4)