Cryptic crossword 07/06/2011

Today's puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Maternity benefit paid at the door? (4,2,8)

9 Get equal cut of vegetable (7)

10 Simple country fellow related to unborn child? (7)

11 Signals propellants (4)

12 Light announcement of style (5)

13 A thweet dithorder in the thpeech (4)

16 Where to fish, perhaps, when dressed for the country (2,5)

17 Feverishly clouts grasshopper (6)

19 Writing about statement of belief on original sin (6)

22 Motoring hazard is smart one in Scotland (7)

25 Cut down weed (4)

26 Indicate there's nothing in measure (5)

27 Written opinion gives credit to information technology (4)

30 Chat about drip, say, is not to be made public (7)

31 Horses for eastern and north-eastern girls (7)

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32 Distant relation whose name ran the land, originally (11,3)

DOWN

1 Monk's headgear you are said to put on part of head (8)

2 Exhausted confining queen's tempter (7)

3 Admits to cry over Poles (4)

4 Spotted fruit in divine surroundings (7)

5 Generous artist gets embroiled in legal claim (7)

6 Improvise with small fuse (4)

7 What utter cad returns and does after ripping out (7)

8 Take a potshot at game bird (5)

14 It's flat, whichever way you look at it (5)

15 Bitter councillor is introduced to help (5)

18 Throw out mole, we hear, and shoot (8)

20 Drug produced in oceanic tempest (7)

21 See Dunkeld, for example (7)

22 Prisoner delivered with permission (7)

23 Radar, for example, turned on my car (7)

24 Take up fuss over gym (5)

28 Hear nothing about loch (4)

29 Young dog getting over a stage before becoming adult (4)

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