Food & Drink No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Food & Drink) 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. Proposition from Mother, rambling on about energy (7)
5. Appears, by the sound of it, to be lines of stitching (5)
8. A rota redrawn shows the heart's main line (5)
9. College class outfit (7)
12. River before Russian range is pastoral (5)
13. Doubts show in leaders of Italian food service (3)
14. Neediest cook is about right to soften the meat (9)
15. Urges on the gaggle, endlessly (4)
16. Cigarette ends, headless, hold water (4)
19. Bit of a grave inscription! (3)
20. Small, cool craft (4)
21. Minus fifty at the bend (4)
23. Excess ire, worked off in drills (9)
26. Spliced when morning moisture turns back (3)
27. Dodge a commercial slipped into the night before (5)
28. Neat command for the editor (7)
29. Motor opener heard as a drab military shade (5)
30. Makes bread out of a broken snare (5)
31. Savings a bird might sit on (4,3)

Down

1. Revolting type in the pit produces sausage supper (4,2,3,4)
2. English gone sour about Continental currency (5)
3. Bake, or give a severe dressing-down (5)
4. Grieve for a moment by the ashes container (5)
5. Rosie, upset over English, gives an evening party (6)
6. Scrap it — oh, Basil is in a stew! (7)
7. Adder gets afters: a cold sweet of berries and bread (6,7)
10. Gravity held within the nude gives a poke (5)
11. Manages bus charges (5)
17. Drain the radiator? Er, this is a nuisance (7)
18. Wait, or do bird (5)
19. Ideas shuffled to one side (5)
22. Frightens with a bungled caress (6)
24. Old chair unsettled deans (5)
25. Dickens villain in troubled skies (5)
26. We salute Caesar and lurch about (5)

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