CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Private fight between dukes in decline (8) 5 A count angered flyer with big bill (6) 9 Home Counties case gets sleeping pill (8) 10 Cut squeezing small firm’s capital (6) 12 Leave with new protective garment (4) 13 Bar headgear in needle game (5,5) 15 I’d grant poor European country’s business zone (7,6) 19 Anarchic plebs possibly their target? (7,6) 23 Reading out quote by engineers (10) 25 Initially, house always had a concealed ditch (2-2) 28 A wife is at training and is expecting (6) 29 Greek letter about rocky Crete and so on (2,6) 30 Place in grave trouble not stopping English doctor (6) 31 Affable Quaker lady ignores notice (8)

DOWN

1 Prepare herb, a prescribed amount (6) 2 Women’s Institute cook with single lady (5) 3 Scottish engineer’s time in Buddhist temple (4) 4 Gunmen on the fiddle reduced pasta dish (7) 6 Old poet eats duck egg (5) 7 Pest shifted rock to block train (9) 8 Nervous Welwyn journalist’s bride perhaps (8) 11 Taste last of pudding after function (4) 14 Exotic garment retained by impresario (4) 15 Cutting ditch with soldier (9) 16 Last piece of writer’s trash rejected (3) 17 Tweets emerging from Johnson government (4) 18 Network ID menus are encrypted (8) 20 Large Oz truck’s instrument (4) 21 Farmyard boss’s list has nothing in it (7) 22 Pay state to jail U.S. city Republican (6) 24 Carry money — it’s revered (5) 26 He put in a plug in the van (5) 27 Hand over grain, by the sound of it (4)