CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Strange exercise given to copper, one prone to falsifying evidence, perhaps (8) 5 Promises to pay, they say, for delays (6) 9 Threesome found to be relating badly (8) 10 Immediately discover a hundred in one (2,4) 12 Aristocratic part of chest (3,6) 13 Biblical character has savings fund on account (5) 14, 17Church offers alternative to we women who are high kickers, performing ... (6,5) 20 ... a benefit encore (5) 21 Tool for putting finishing touches to slum dwelling (6) 24 Gives information with last nudge to lawenforcers (5) 25 Forgiving at home to boring fellow, so they say (9) 28, 30 Vehicle in France good for going out together to discover organic age (6,6) 29 Nail moth that’s been flitting around academical town (8) 30 See 28 31 Like an example of rapacity according to the contract (2,6)

DOWN

1, 2 Junk food – a Scots prop it turns out to be (6,6) 3 Social onerous, essentially to person who’s not sociable (5) 4 Let field that’s not grown crop be topped (5) 6 A number in the charts listing he desperately wanted (3,6) 7 One in a hundred found pink-flowered herb (8) 8 South-east ceased to prepare peapod, for example (8) 11 Wall painting forces call for restoration (6) 15 Passes on workers not working at the moment (5,4) 16 Art critic takes baby food to eat (6) 18 Daft cafe misrepresented as “looking beefy” (3-5) 19 Aquatic rodent run to earth in Western Australia over time (5,3) 22 Police control tactic used for boiling situation? (6) 23 Given barbaric punishment for being spaced out (6) 26 Sward dug up at possible results of games (5) 27 Breathing apparatus I wear on Scottish island (5)