Across
9
Oxygen particle takes reverse path (5)
10
Where to apply ointment in difficult situation (2,3,4)
11
Cold aspect of ex-PM and team? (5,4)
12
Dale against exiting passage (5)
13
Contracting medic to attend ruler (7)
15
One, in a bold move, goes to ball game (7)
20
Force leader, caught in bad lie, to U-turn (5)
22
Son stifled by ‘worthy’ ancestry (7)
25
Managing to get somewhere between flights (7)
26
City was first to back paper (5)
27
Wicked bank’s terrible racket (6,3)
30
Detailed, informed arguments against current state (9)
31
Death-dealing, gross mobster? (5)
Down
1
Low point is to make a cheeky gesture (4)
2
Barking, Rome, Cuba, York initially (8)
3
About a half-hour is more than enough for this place (4)
4
Future turnover recovering from collapse? (6,2)
5
Be there when it’s all over, tense inside (6)
6
Panties, or a pants split? (10)
7
A parrot has nothing on butterfly (6)
8
Brace of salmon introduced on river (4)
13
Went out with old hat (5)
14
Check hacked PIN notices (10)
16
Ordinary, standard prison camp (5)
19
Theft of rubbing outside church (8)
21
Earlier conviction in US large town not leader’s main concern (8)
23
Trumpet band secures record backing (6)
24
Prominent Republican all but crushes lives – that’s self-evident (6)
28
In control, if temperatures pick up (4)
29
Get rid of a bad mood, say, pedestrian-style? (4,3)