Cryptic No. 3 — cryptic crossword

A cryptic puzzle: 35 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. Big blazes I put out (7)
5. Panic: a learner has a weapon (5)
8. Tall story of one loud and capable (5)
10. Eve hits out and steals (7)
11. Resin worked into a wash (5)
13. Former partner before noon is a test (4)
14. Court proceedings and a sprint for the pilot (5,3)
16. Refined coal produces a drink (4)
17. Gentlemen opening formal letters (4)
18. Boy turned back, giving refusals (3)
19. Detective and journalist passed away (4)
21. Employs practical applications (4)
22. Drop your cheek and be humbled (4,4)
25. Trade, we hear, in a room in the nick (4)
26. Papers back the French for me in a manner of speaking (5)
28. Court order with the net returned, put down (7)
29. Adder writhing in fear (5)
30. Wrongs harbouring good omens (5)
31. Heated, with king inside, as in half- or lion- (7)

Down

1. Puts up with fortissimo cutting through litigants (7)
2. It's black and white, and gets walked all over (5,8)
3. Worker from the north has visited (4)
4. Tenant losing right to go in (5)
5. Fighter penetrating breakdown service is a friend in Spain (5)
6. Evident stream diverted for a plug (13)
7. Mother with boy, a member of the lodge (5)
9. Cars for the stars cruise round Milos (5)
12. Verse Santa mangled, with an unknown thrown in (6)
15. Put out that one is taken to court (6)
19. Good manners, without hesitation, give the look of the place (5)
20. Dude led astray! (7)
22. Wiles unravelled by Morse's sidekick (5)
23. Feats worked out by the three sisters (5)
24. Piece of cake for one about to creep (5)
27. Middleman regularly gets a notion (4)

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