Welcome to our new setter. Bouquets and Brickbats welcome.
Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.
ACROSS
1 Mathematical constant heard starting the hot online news about a snake (6)
4 Theoretical interest in pertaining to education? (8)
9 A group of twenty Presidents transformed into a cadaver (6)
10 Mao, for one, presides over a meeting (8)
12 Fast cat made right something to be true (4)
13 Part of an ear leaving European by to influence (5)
14 Important growth of feline hair, say! (4)
17 Expectation to lose it first and get back ScientistX at front to get liberation (12)
20 Good man, representative to company and carbon copy of ScientistX cause Pharyngitis (12)
23 Black bringer of bleak news! (4)
24 In this month, half a spinning top backwards serves as a distraction (5)
25 Strike as a punishment with black or green? (4)
28 Computer partly overdosed with Selenium became cool! (8)
29 Local Area Network backed him to hear a book of songs (6)
30 Risk seat to build character! (8)
31 Understanding danger to a public hall (6)
DOWN
1 Personal assistant partly stated clearly, calmed down (8)
2 Steer thermal power fuel endlessly towards a defector (8)
3 Expel a good man joined at Osmania University (4)
5 Living together! (12)
6 Dog, tear apart to shed small drops (4)
7 Short madam with part malice produces warm blooded vertebrate (6)
8 A dog tooth? (6)
11 Past, present and future force mixing to have all the parts (12)
15 Severe angle? (5)
16 Writers find it, one also finds it to start speaking (5)
18 Seen creed discrimination, lose ending was broadcast (8)
19 Hal,on a bit, organized skiing and rifle shooting (8)
21 Tropical shrub needs twice cooling instrument having Artificial Intelligence back (6)
22 Socialist with hot star removed off to dedicate (6)
26 Show this to fire? (4)
27 The ugly radiation inside a constellation (4)
Enjoy.
