Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 04/10/12

ACROSS

1 Explains that one has a burden to bear (4,6)

6 Some social workers revert to being secular (4)

10 Trip over oar in take-off place (7)

11 Sentimental girl, invited into the garden, left in the end (7)

12 Summon workers to display small exhibitions (8)

13 A small piece left out of a signalling system (5)

15 Think fit to discriminate, on balance (6)

17 Hit it off, having to comply with the final half-day (8)

19 Cross out, with little hesitation, a piece of homework (8)

21 Begin to pour out new cordial (6)

24 Resort to new broadcast at noon (5)

25 Point to a top light (8)

28 Be inactive, and sluggish, so keeps quiet about it (4,3)

29 Head off to scramble, managing to climb up (7)

30 Up until now, one might find a mythical creature (4)

31 Would a teenager have to share things out in promotion? (10)

DOWN

1 Lay hands on gunner in front of 4 down (4)

2 Road not destroyed by violent storm (7)

3 Love to have a party, about to finish (5)

4 Estimating the value of an ordinary seaman (6)

5 Seem to rest up in six-month course (8)

7 Free to create a model comprehensive (2,5)

8 Striving to compete in first game (10)

9 Dive into pool after advance (8)

14 Text on the net, having carte blanche (10)

16 Have to back empty lorry next (8)

18 May chew up seed, but had nothing to do with it (8)

20 Celebrated the last excavation before the National Trust took over (7)

22 Base for one force of the highest quality (7)

23 Share with group to wrap things up (6)

26 Weighs down lots of freight (5)

27 Did an annoying child run into the club? (4)

Yesterday’s solution

Across: 1 Unpopular, 6 Pan Am, 9 Fourth dimension, 10 Toddy, 11 Ice anchor, 12 Beneath, 13 Shiloah, 15 Notched, 17 Mistral, 18 Fledgling, 20 Flint, 22 The plot thickens, 23 Ditch, 24 Retrousse.

Down: 1 Unfit, 2 Pounding the beat, 3 Petty cash, 4 Laddish, 5 Rompers, 6 Pin on, 7 Neighbourliness, 8 Monarchal, 12 Benefited, 14 Ipso facto, 16 Drifter, 17 Mugshot, 19 Gulch, 21 Taste.