CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Greeting Edith back after good time when seas in (4,4) 5. Mortimers Old Bailey man avoided duck in crease (6) 9. Ploughed field will endlessly produce biodiversity (8) 10. Bush prepared to tour Rhode Island displaying pride (6) 12. Resonance evident in male choir (4) 13. Junior priest dressed in lacy arrangement? Exactly (10) 15. No radical people on minor routes in east England (7,6) 19. Simple persons innocuous, stupidly taking test on cycle (7,6) 23. Security for bags is attractive to Herts. town (10) 25. Someone from Glasgow appears in racecourse topless (4) 28. Rowlings human hybrid accepts childs horse (6) 29. Old boys almost livid working in forgotten state (8) 30. Modest, but cheats horribly (6) 31. On Palm Sunday, upset, a nun cancelled hymnsinging (8)

Down

1. Thick rope damaged washer (6) 2. Ravine initially goes under large church (5) 3. Chat in hospital kitchen (4) 4. Actual day before return of old time coffee bar (2,5) 6. Flap of inconclusive value wobbles round middle of mouth (5) 7. China, undecorated, contains carbon in mineral (9) 8. Lamb e.g. lives in East Street (8) 11. Billy goat for 100 cents (4) 14. Component of dressages wrong on reflection (4) 15. I put in a granule thats dissolved nasty pain (9) 16. Some replacement for varnish ingredient (3) 17. Stratagem confuses user (4) 18. Lecturer and two Air Commodores entertain Moore (8) 20. In the distant past youre dispossessed of heart (4) 21. Latin for Everybody in bumper edition (7) 22. Miserly old TV sci-fi puppet series lost artist (6) 24. Get divorced in Croatian resort (5) 26. Christian symbol in letters picked up in ME capital (5) 27. Economists sick supporting money (4)