Cinema No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Cinema) cryptic puzzle: 34 clues on a 13×13 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Secure joke with energy — the stuff we carry around (7)
5. All bar one caught, in the region of the groin (5)
8. Like a quiet stop on the tarmac (7)
10. Fuss with the Navy to dress up (5)
11. King and sea eagle make a fighting man of old (4)
13. Hand the editor gold, the top prize in film (5,3)
16. Slight advantage at the border (4)
17. Lear, at sea, is a noble (4)
18. Mean to approach (4)
19. Trio out of tune — what a scream! (4)
20. Serums brought back by the god of war (4)
22. Cut the tail off the aircraft for the design (4)
23. Health body to press for payment — it is a mystery (8)
25. Relate, or make an impact (4)
26. Fool! I do it all wrong (5)
27. Respectable, but taking in son on the way down (7)
30. Trim daughter shifted sideways (5)
31. English tender, badly drawn, went in (7)

Down

1. Straightforward, as the old films were (5,3,5)
2. Opening in the Big Apple (3)
3. Sayings gathered in a Havana nightspot (3)
4. Spare hand in the crowd scene (5)
5. Something in the blood: a psalm, oddly composed (6)
6. It runs in the family, from way back (9)
7. Aunt Grace, told off, applauded (13)
9. Vandal's doctor and editor get a century (7)
12. Thinking about a boy at home, with gravity (9)
13. Quiet note by the tin produces a nut (5)
14. Bounded over a crushed petal (5)
15. Eric's caught a rat wandering (7)
21. A duster left out had corroded (6)
24. Cool to pass on a low-budget film (5)
28. Ready for the odd bit of sweet (3)
29. Bit of hearing! (3)

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