ACROSS
1 Bad look on board ensures press will get excited (12, 2 words)
10 American spies harbour work reversing and repelling evil (10)
11 Bring back Scottish champion salesman? (6)
13 Dull fellow, dull, but with change of heart (4)
14 No longer failing test regarding will (9)
16 Bent pipe’s volume displaced in thrust (4)
18 See range of colours in bird (6)
19 Later trembling in the active nucleus (8)
21 Many people – alas – no longer back religious criticism (8)
23 Brave folk in France are close to danger from exploding warheads (6)
24 Male rock star concealing debut in old recording (4)
25 Cloud timer developed, offering no latitude in assessing rainfall (9)
28 Around Leith, female fish are found in shoal (4)
29 Mate’s horse going over – the 16? (6)
30 Lambasted supper staff about third of courses, being rich and insolent (10)
31 Fellow led astray, senses reeling, singular lack of attention (12)
DOWN
1 Is hard to go round endlessly in dry religious building (12, 2 words)
2 Student’s partner – husband? (4)
3 Climbing fells – hurried into that place for equipment (9)
4 Name encountered amongst others under “English character in play” (6)
5 Old tax impounding gold wire not providing incitement? (8)
6 Nourishing stuff? Gossip picked up nothing (4)
7 This so is a confection of calories! (6)
8 What’s inamorato sporting with energy? (10)
9 Hunters do – do I, when motivated? (12, 3 words)
12 Former lover’s turned up – lover-to-be cut off? (10)
15 Millet carried round third storage space? (9)
17 English fixed chance to buy up enzyme (8)
20 Literary figure probed by University actors (6)
22 Prisons holding head of powerful family legally (6)
26 Historic nobleman in Cheshire or Lancashire (4)
27 Young, heartless poem heartless poet’s left (4)
Solution
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