No 9512, Tuesday, 21 Apr 09, M. Manna

Silence is golden and ignorance is bliss!!
ACROSS
1 - A small gate in the middle of the field (6) - WICKET [DD]
4 - Obscure about agreement not properly laid out (8) - MIS{DEAL}T
10 - Moved in a great hurry to fire rifle (7) - {RAN}{SACK}
11 - Fit grip around the prisoner necessary (7) - C{APT}IVE ??
12 - Leave out Tim back with nothing (4) - {O}{MIT<-}
13 - Raises weapons in holders to cover chair perhaps (10) - {U}{HOLSTERS}
16 - Many arrange to store solid higher alcohol (6) - STERO*{L}
17 - Thing about duty is to again examine properly (7) - {RE}{STUDY*}
20 - Fought about the time table being wrong (7) - BAT{T}LE*{D} Don't know where D came from
21 - To reverse in speed turn around (6) - R{OT<-}ATE
24 - The school for learning chemistry? (10) - ELEMENTARY [CD] Not so elemantary Watson!!
25 - Maid may be in the midst (4) - AMID*
27 - You may find her coming late in an assembly (7) - NATALIE*
29 - One receives waves from girl, about ten (7) - AN{TEN}NA
30 - A writer offering serving men a drink (8) - {RE}{PORT}ER
31 - Pigs so assemble for idle talk (6) - GOSSIP*
DOWN
1 - Old veteran worse if injected with hemolytic factor (3,5) - W{AR H}ORSE
2 - Look carefully to study side charge (11) - {CON}SIDE{RATE}
3 - Antelope losing tail in a dash (4) - ELAN(-d)
5 - One North Carolina ladies’ man living luxuriously (2,6) - {I}{N C}{LOVER}
6 - Evidence of a monarch’s overthrow (10) - DEPOSITION [DD]
7 - Al takes one for him (3) - {AL}{I}
8 - The saint is one who believes in God (6) - {THE}{I}{ST}
9 - Omits large containers for transporting building material (5) - SKIPS [DD]
14 - Tender names are in order! (11) - ENDEARMEANTS*
15 - Ordered writer to hold the German dog (10) - ROTTWEILLER (Anagram of writer+tole) Don't ask me what TOLE is. But Rottweilers are the Dogs which were seen in the movie 'The Omen'
18 - The seat ’e removed from one affecting an extravagant love of art (8) - AESTHETE*
19 - Help a mad eccentric with the front light (8) - HEADLAMP*
22 - The wife and I commonly appear more common (6) - {ME}{AN}{ER}
23 - Large regions are found in S. Africa backyard (5) - ARE{AS<-}
26 - Crazy to request tot of damask rose oil (4) - {OT*}{TO}(-t)
28 - Cover pot on return (3) - TOP<-