Welcome to our new setter Khusro.
Bouquets and brickbats welcome with comments.
Three answers per commenter as usual (Annotations compulsory) till 6 PM.
ACROSS
1 Detailed but half-complete, draft (8)
5 Scale back wildlife (6)
9 Clean moonlight! (9)
10 Her love? (4)
11 Tenth counter is cool (4)
12 Choice of company vehicle is hard for Reagan follower? (6,4)
15 Not new cultural code (5)
16 Ring back one in the plant (5)
20 Points for this clue? (5)
21 Beast was brought back (5)
25 Beach, alive with activity, within reach (10)
26 Opening what's controversial often ends in this: in the news! (4
28 Stop, take off top for comfort (4)
29 Child's play to have whiskey chasing beer endlessly (9)
30 Seriously, a river cruise? (6)
31 Germany's airport head removed to a terminal waiting area? (5,3)
DOWN
1 Eat lunch of beef at home (6)
2 Having a cigarette, lemonade and laid-back breakfast fare (8)
3 By oneself, working extremely languidly (4)
4 Look who Mother, perhaps, married? (6)
6 I object to note put up for group (4,2)
7 Can quietly fix a way out (8)
8 French Right accept alien in this city (7)
13 Online identity: Hand Paint? (6)
14 Group with common interests about a lost French article (6)
17 Advance in age, death is fickle (3,5)
18 Live with heartbreak and expire (7)
19 Almost stay over with a good man by accident (8)
22 Charlie consumes two tequilas free of charge (6)
23 Pass by and see complicated circuit within (6)
24 When broken record is hidden by a family member (6)
27 Go sing! (4)
Across Lite version can be accessed at the following link Manish Mishra 1
Enjoy.
