CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Start trade, replacing Republican with neutral (8) 5 Couple, one that managed to get over a cold (6) 9 Disinfectant could make Noel rich (8) 10 A posh vat contains first of Medoc in season (6) 12 Finished term at Lord’s (4) 13 Landed badly on a runway finally when Shrovetide ends (7,3) 15 Disrupt trendy place to go (13) 19 Contentious concoction of mature vintage (13) 23 Priest’s residence right to garage vehicle for valet (10) 25 Nasal tone limits singer (4) 28 In hospital, register catchphrase (6) 29 University student rioter somehow not divulged (8) 30 Bizarre tales about southern collection of yarns (6) 31 Group spread over large ring at rear of stage for first speech (8)

DOWN

1 Copper and cook designed flier (6) 2 Middle East regularly altered struggle (5) 3 Bring in new auditor at the top (4) 4 Control racket, one interrupting function (7) 6 Part of jumbo’s head and chest (5) 7 An awful lot like a cakewalk? (9) 8 Forager initially has one eye cast over front of bed (8) 11 Spots expert around noon (4) 14 Fraud about to be suppressed by sergeant major (4) 15 Simple popular group of species probed by Open University (9) 16 Tax holder of liquid (3) 17 Pupil’s surrounded by this plant (4) 18 Primate roams everywhere in New York opera house (8) 20 Body of church is simple, lacking centrepiece (4) 21 Revoke a radical circular (7) 22 Track series of lectures (6) 24 Avoid English channel on way north (5) 26 Inventing tales in flat (5) 27 Pull up vegetable that gives sailors stability (4)