ACROSS
1 Hairy fawn, mostly alert after one intrudes
CRINIGEROUS I in CRINGE ROUS[e]
11 Expel judge from tournament contest
OUST [j]OUST
12 US politician recalled reduction in grievance
VEEP PEEV[e]<
13 Jazz piano’s pleasant if one’s ignored the high volume
STRIDENCE
14 Prepared to be exhausted after a bit of a kip?
ATTIRED
16 Monitor Seven, activated, showing usual blood pressure
NORMOTENSIVE (MONITOR SEVEN)*
17 Security officer, not entirely asleep, letting nothing in
DOORMAN O in DORMAN[t]
20 Regarding heavenly twin declining elements of crown…
AS TO
21 …some apostasy perhaps revealed in leak
SYPE apostaSY PErhaps
22 Provider of meals leading debauches after a volte-face
STEWPOT TOP WETS<
23 Poor sight treated – apparently hard to envisage two-sided manuscript
OPISTHOGRAPH (POOR SIGHT)* AP H
25 Has cut down unexpected order for eggs
HARD ROE HA[s] (ORDER)*
28 New edition of canal lore is provided with point
LANCEOLAR (CANAL LORE)*
29 Worry about tense state in Paris
ETAT T in EAT
30 The old din is following musical note
UTIS IS after UT
31 See us working with a stern demeanour such as this?
AUSTERENESS (SEE US A STERN)*
DOWN
2 Pigeon in regular journey appearing on time
RUNT RUN T
3 Is love theme surrounding listener finally from all directions equally?
ISOTROPIC R in IS O TOPIC
4 Fashionable glove carried by old woman that’s intervening
INTROMITTENT MITTEN in IN TROT
5 Turn endlessly bloody – like this?
GORE GO RE[d]
6 Clear identification in case
EVIDENT ID in EVENT
7 Get retrained, realigned, restored
REDINTEGRATE (GET RETRAINED)*
8 Finished saying ‘supervised’
OVERSAW OVER SAW
9 Man’s upset about college function
SECH C in HE’S<
10 Deposits homeless pet for relocation
SPELEOTHEMS (HOMELESS PET)*
11 Rings within rings and lines about to be raised by disputant
OB-AND-SOLLER BANDS in OO LL RE< objection and solution
15 Special and somehow apart in stamp?
DISPARATE S (APART)* in DIE
18 Cuts off sources of radical extremism (cults)
RESECTS Radical Extremism SECTS
19 Wood undamaged,we hear? Not here
ASH-HOLE ASD “whole”
24 Had a word of thanks for information given
DATA D A TA
26 Almost all acting will have run of the wings
ALAR AL[l] A R
27 TV relay is showing Japanese clothing
OBIS OB IS outside broadcasting(OB)
Thanks for the blog, Jed, and Beelzebub for the puzzle. Esp for OB-AND-SOLLER, I got it all right from the wordplay but could not find it anywhere until now. What I missed was the hyphenation and it’s in Chambers for sure. BTW, I think 14A is AT TIRED with at being a bit of a kip (currency).
Thanks, Jed. A very tough week, I found, with lots to work out and also lots to check before entry, and of course it was ultimately satisfying to see a completed grid