Special, Sunday 05 Aug 2018, Karthikeyan

Welcome to our new setter, Karthikeyan. Bouquets and Brickbats welcome.

Three answers as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
1   A vessel first for aid (6)
4   Abnormal waiter shook extremely  a surface sport (5,3)
10 Pet race announced anyhow in acrobatics (7)
11 Produce lot more trill (7)
12 Score single digit (6,3)
13 Swelling in suede mat board (5)
14 Overide king, a ruler (7)
16 Only without money collected by railway employee becomes cylindrical in cross-section (6)
19 Pass by the spanish church feature (6)
21 Regret raising capital in Rupees all over east (7)
25 Aussie general takes part in prolonged assault (5)
26 Will fluid disinfectants fade away? I have a feeling it might (9)
28 One-time recidivist holds back this anti-social individual (7)
29 Semidiapente almost commonplace to have single interval (7)
30 We writers going into sea nearly in a state of anxiety (8)
31 Fathers, say, absorbed in gambling (6)

DOWN
1   Shrewd pupil finally drops English after getting good grades (6)
2   Rush to dispute point (5)
3   Ghost creeps shapelessly around the centre of Patna (7)
5   Then, maybe, in the morning's a national song (6)
6   Heartily vexed annoy English scripture interpreter (7)
7   Sergeant major fine with English lower in rank in such a zone (9)
8   One very delayed daughter put in quarantine (8)
9   Dear resting place gets zero score (7)
15 Quite brazen,  offering fake drug in smaller quantity (9)
17 Have another look at most of the actual engineering found in two ships (8)
18 Body found in squat surrounded by refuse (7)
20 Litres split, with lemonade finally lacking vitality (7)
22 Old eleven with new team goes rusty (7)
23 Lags inside facing endlessly rigourous sentences initially (6)
24 Current ship permitting license leading to small islands (6)
27 Made a decision about stockings (5)

Across Lite version can be downloaded from KARTHIK 1

Enjoy.