Excellent. Long perimeter clues particularly nifty and the device used in 18a is classic
ACROSS
1 Computer equipment dances behind tug TRACKERBALLS
tug TRACKER dances BALLS
11 The French put in ermine, say, on ornament FLEURON ornament
LE in FUR ON
12 Elizabethan household that is appended to servants around one MEINIE (Shakespeare) that is IE after I in MEN
13 Forest worker receiving nothing for one part of message ROGER
forest worker RANGER with AN replaced by O nothing
14 Sniffer, veined? Not very E-NOSE electronic detector
veined VENOSE minus V
15 Surprised cry after reduction of threat in orbital point PERIGEE
PERI[L] GEE
16 Recalled memory about one Northern child MINOR I N in ROM<
18 18 letters – tremendous – backing it, a new cholesterol control
ATORVASTATIN drug 18 letters A to R VAST ITA< N clever
20 Borders of Latin nations etc possibly display some CONTINENTALS
borders of Latin (LN NATIONS ETC)*
24 First stages of Jaipur holiday prepared with some Indian music JHALA
Jaipur holiday first letters JH prepared (cooking) A LA
26 “To venerate’ is enshrined in one fan ICONISE
IS in I CONE one fan
27 Irish sage very attached to the jar OLLAV learned man
jar OLLA V
28 Lad about to back losers? NONOS (SON ON)<
29 Pass through poverty in abandoning job NEEDLE pass through
poverty NEED in from LINE
30 Gas worried baby NEONATE baby NEON gas ATE worried
31 Holmes’ woman’s found amongst toffs in London theatre
SADLERS WELLS Irene ADLERS in SWELLS
DOWN
1 The cinema is surprisingly raking in millions from SF staples
millions M in (THE CINEMA IS)* TIME MACHINES
2 Charged particle soon carrying current ANION I in ANON
3 Palace staff losing heart about working with second Queen’s partner
ON working S second in CO[U]RT CONSORT Queen’s partner
4 Begonia transplanted may be pleasant here ELEPHANT’S EAR
(PLEASANT HERE)*
5 Discharges related land rights RELEASEMENTS
related REL land rights EASEMENTS
6 Bribe securing expensive car with lots of cases BURRY (having seed cases)
Rolls Royce RR in bribe BUY
7 Dry retaining nothing like the cuckoo pint AROID arum like
O in ARID
8 Stake pound on horse around Tadcaster initially LOGGAT stake
pound L on O horse GG around A T[adcaster]
9 More than one software item conceals claims SCREENSAVERS
SCREENS AVERS claims
10 One’s taken in by man or father rarely GENITOR father
I in GENT OR
17 Unusual old brew – sick, with trapped wind? On the contrary
GILL ALE infusion of ground ivy ILL in GALE
21 Nobody Dutch failed to copy Englishmen NOONED mad dogs and …
nobody NO ONE Dutch D
22 Thurso boys upset this Scottish wimp SNOOL LOONS<
23 Limits to submission in rival legal district VISNE district
S[ubmissio]N in VIE rival
25 Everyone’s about to render organic compound ALDOL aldehyde alcohol
render DO in everyone ALL
( )* = anagram < = reverse [ ] = omit
As a former computer programmer who reads SF and has often gone to Sadler’s Wells, the perimeter answers appealed to me. Had trouble with 6d, though, thinking it might be BURRS.