Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman, 09/10/12

Across

1 City on Pakistan’s frontier in bad shape with conflict (8)

5 Stick? Many desert, rather (6)

9 The French followed, read (they say) map, and found tree (3,5)

10 Bullseyes, perhaps, heard to be scored in sets of adjoining rooms (6)

12 Container to hold or enter 1 down (6)

13 A library one found in use for defence (5)

16 Stays with boy who’s introduced to assistants (6)

17 As musicians got older, they were wrapped in dressings (8)

20 Point is remade about old site (8)

21 Further Education phone-in about feature of Edinburgh Festival (6)

23 Australia’s one place to find gas (5)

25 Pack animals all back with masters (6)

28 King doesn’t press on horn (6)

29 Losing heart in fair fight, turns to writing on the wall (8)

30 Vague myths surround eastern herbs (6)

31 Unlock the pub, perhaps, with enthusiastic welcome (4,4)

DOWN

1 2 Egyptian city said to be on the left (4,4)

3 Being humbled in a low-level type of accommodation (9)

4 Drunken sailor turning red? (6)

6 Girl student has indefinable quality (5)

7 A sequence sent without introduction is sharp (10)

8 I sent Sadie to work in Southern Asia (4,6)

11 Take malicious pleasure in animal having eaten head of lamb (5)

14 Electrical units have to be housed in ornamental case for one type of power point (4,6)

15 The small woman, for example, will not find one on a railway (10)

18 Lads in for a rough ride when part of shark seen above water (6,3)

19 Ghost that appears in imagined glen (5)

22 Persian governor took part as uprising set in (6)

24 Be a drama queen when far away, not returning to start (5)

26 Stand for coffin principals buried in earth, remorsefully (4)

27 Suggestions for getting endlessly drunk (4)