Cryptic Crossword

Across

1 ,5 Section of team to make a meal of club with unauthorised director (8,6)

9 Agent takes on good girl with telescope (8)

10 Trivial affront (6)

12 Burn master work (6)

13 Park with a thousand acres of spruce (5)

16 Journey made with first-time composer (6)

17 Its choir is, in a way, legendary (8)

20 Equipment that will be found in kitchen unless it changes (8)

21 Uncle avenges poke with stick and ... (6)

23 ... does the same for journalists (5)

25 Elbows out a Kipling character with personal hygiene problem (6)

28 Sayings used as notice gets older (6)

29 Back number mangles us in road (8)

30, 31 Become fond of the highlands and make a quick getaway (4,2,3,5)

DOWN

1 Play on the streets, taking public transport back finally (4)

2 Coral islands in California? Yes, but not in the centre (4)

3 Ingredient of soup as set does in Spanish currency (5,4)

4 Unseat novel writer (6)

6 Parts of smart car called for (5)

7 Given a rate to arrange for eating rabbit food (10)

8 The Pied Piper hunting in a tweed jacket? (10)

11 Ploy (not opening) has scope (5)

14 Pluck illegal seller who may be listening in street (5,5)

15 Attempt to chat (4,1,5)

18 Tax salvationist in prison (9)

19 Hug oneself at having got the French involved (5)

22 Conclude ‘At Home’ by tucking into tuna, say (6)

24 You and I are in group that’s winning (5)

26 Messages downloaded from Neeson (4)

27 What’s written tells us they’re no amateurs (4)