CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Hard to catch? Use evil plan (7) 5 Islamic ruling on contents of low-fat wafer (5) 11 Affecting moral superiority when mounted on something greater than 29 (2,4,4,5) 12 Tiny piece of total flora and fauna doesn’t get a start (4) 13 Last purists long to create backbone (5) 14 Abandoned child must wait until destiny is changed (4) 17 Gave sharp cry of pain when assisted with new opening (6) 18 Say lock can be fixed with part of egg (4,3) 20 I turned out at the experimental stage (7) 22 Honourable Jewish person sees guys to school (6) 24 So, eg, the mystery departs (4) 25 Cut back wrinkled fruit (5) 26 It’s not exciting to dish up stale matter (4) 29 One’s finest power deployed to find something for children to ride (3,6,6) 30 Called for purchasers of cowsheds (5) 31 Harsh cheese topping needs final touch of egg (7) DOWN 2 Pretend not to notice second instruction for crossing the road (4,3,5,3) 3 Take legal action over original taste of fat pudding (4) 4 Acutely pointed request for silence put in as smoked e-cigarette (1-6) 6 Long painfully to lift lid of valuable store (4) 7 Psychiatric test for people who’ve got together after using Microsoft package? (4,11) 8 Namely, drag the thing (2,3) 9 Intervention in gynaecology during operation of first half (6) 10 and 23 Flawless on edge – I have done it and you have seen it, for example (7,5) 15 Country where Dad’s living in sin (5) 16 Coffee, perhaps, with black finish (5) 19 His turn comes up in rotation to put drinks on tap (7) 21 English county newly sorted (6) 22 Pupil with special duties can come back into room (7) 23 See 10 27 The fashion is to be cut short, I hear (4) 28 Company take exercise with Roman Egyptian (4)