Cryptic crossword
Across
1 Hangs around with thick-headed beastly males (5)
6 Room to spread
capes (5)
9 Location of national
interest, of course (7) 10 Credit a politician with
muscle trouble (5) 11 Go round to get a
garment (5)
12 A name came up (5) 13 Magician having terrible trouble with security! (7)
15 Short name for a
Carmelite centre (3) 17 In the menagerie, it's
not just a pond (4) 18 To pile in order to be
obliging (6)
19 Seen to contain five in
number (5)
20 Wee drinks around closing time, one imagines (6)
22 General secretary? (4) 24 Still the old-fashioned
style of shirt (3) 25 Tough guy creating drama in the outskirts of Hendon (4,3) 26 Trembling tree? (5) 27 Macho, but only to a
companion (5)
28 It's a blow, being
dismissed at 150! (5) 29 Listen fully to anything
said (4,3)
30 Beneath being stood on in the way implied (5)
31 The place is in sheer
chaos! (5)
Down
2 The terrible fellow twice turned traitor! (6)
3 It's good to go easily,
however hazardous (6) 4 Drink up a bit
snappishly (3)
5 Baby bird? (5)
6 It could be an
educational time (7) 7 Keep switching,
doggedly! (4) 8 It's no cert, perhaps,
for the player (6) 12 Areas where brokendown cars are put out of the way (5) 13 Housemaid? (5) 14 Hold firmly that I have
to be in the right (5) 15 A note
reciprocated? (5) 16 The loch is smooth at
one corner (5)
18 Tree or soft variety of
cane (5) 19 Old-fashioned girl of
destructive beauty? (7) 21 Get back and once
more go (6) 22 Grown-ups with no
children! (6) 23 Nominally blue, it finishes up in the
Black Sea (6) 25 Pumping centre (5) 26 Suffering taken to
heart by teachers (4) 28 It's pushed over a bridge to start the ball rolling (3)