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Monday 13 April

set by Vulcan #29979

Across

1 Manage to obtain expert remedy (7) 5 Fight to secure wizard (7) 10 The opera for petrolheads? (6) 11 Eternity may be represented as wholeness (8) 12 Gaffer seen in good sort of light (3) 13 Disconcerted in hearing having elevated seat (6) 14 Charges and unhorses criminal (8) 15 A lawyer, but not for long? (5) 16 Given a certificate with some reservations (9) 19 Two words of compliance in song, or three such at sea (3,3,3) 21 Major Shakespeare role, new, to memorise (5) 24 Small child to eat with family (8) 26 Salad plant: I have the last bit first (6) 27 I am moving round train (3) 28 No ordinary lake? (8) 29 Obvious time for old lament (6) 30 She leads a hand-to-mouth existence (7) 31 Ivy for one in a soft shoe (7)

Down

2 Child hero involved in treachery (7) 3 More usual answer for these days (6,3) 4 Park-keeper’s great annoyance following run (6) 6 Coming in last in spite of everything? (5,3) 7 Primate leads off responses in services from the front (5) 8 How Tom sees road safety feature (4,3) 9 Lenin for one turning in his grave? (13) 17 Bird fled a fire, flying off (9) 18 Feeble-sounding stories in magazines (8) 20 Solvers on underground platform (7) 22 Receipts are concerning meeting place (7) 23 Moderate rage (6) 25 Luckily avoid both cold and high temperature (5)
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