Welcome to yet another 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
7 Stranger returns with hesitation, takes students to the banker (6)
8 Accept honour (6)
11 Ref's rants about shifts (9)
12 Manipulate/edit book entry that’s on the left side of ledger (5)
13 Skirt of girl, fashionable tee-shirt/tops shines (6)
14 Leaderless protestors are people having quivers (7)
16 Handle boss (4)
18 Sales - including drink (3)
19 Close small cabin (4)
23 Notice vehicle in front of church, move forward (7)
25 Father left at home, a material (6)
28 Question a model (5)
29 No more energy to crush (9)
30 Entices casual worker with timely salary initially (6)
31 Inspect, say a bill of payment (6)
DOWN
1 At first Rahul with great happiness formed alliance (8)
2 New clothes husband removed out of storage area (6)
3 Forces son to leave operators (5)
4 Slipping ace strikes short sportsman on rink (3,6)
5 Jury results against orders without a bit of reform (8)
6 Active doctor jumped into river (6)
9 Dais gates broken (5)
10 Hide belt worn by model (5)
15 Depot here was built around old university (9)
17 Punk brat badly ruined (8)
20 Peacekeepers locked the leader, a dreadful criminal (8)
21 Vehicles loaded with soft fish (5)
22 Partly open, trying an access (5)
24 Gives seller some craft (6)
26 Very large catch for hawk (6)
27 Violation! Right, get out of this volleyball venue (5)
Enjoy.
