Guardian Cryptic #28439

2021-05-07

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Across

9a

Excited cry from oaf (5)

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10a

I go off pastry sent around by a restaurant (9)

11a

Herbivore long ago sorted out grasses, mostly (9)

12a

Officers soundly managed area of woodland (5)

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13a

Visionary returns from hearing (7)

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15a

Shows emotion and is destruct­ive? Doesn't sound like it (5,2)

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17a

Despotic leader installed without a break (5)

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18a

Role in Henry V sounds like something anyone could play (3)

20a

Ruse that helps player secure contract (5)

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22a

See 3

25a

Help with 24, a couple of 3 23 (7)

26a

Audibly, complaint increased in volume (5)

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27a

Legal agreements for shrinks (9)

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30a

Problem for driver scrambling to reverse (9)

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31a

Kind of love that's very open, like 8 and 15 exemplifying 3 7 (5)

Down

1d

One or more positive responses viewers stated (4)

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2d

Forcibly removedit's all over, one might say (5,3)

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3d
22a

Term implying wisdom that's peculiarly man's? I hope so (4,7)

4d

Put under financial pressure, stop being crooked, we hear (8)

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5d

Sign of something extra, or amount of gold, announced as incentive (6)

6d

Being governed by chance upset constituents of a Scottish Conservative (10)

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7d

Plots to use G sharp in new composition (6)

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8d

China's tea with pronounced difference (4)

13d

Diarist has a furtive look, reportedly (5)

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14d

Letters he has put in post to North and South? It's left, if not right (10)

16d

Fire controller for game (5)

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19d

Male is awfully randy, resulting in this? (8)

21d

Mocking boy, one I expelled, that's heavily protected (8)

23d

In triumph, one smashes cells, perhaps (6)

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24d

Shoot, with 26, a pair of 3 23 (6)

26d

Closing gap, don't stop thug (4)

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28d

As example of 3 18, raise back part(4)

29d

or put an end to movement out of control (4)