By Jane Fitzpatrick
Across
1 View professional’s muscle model (8)
5 Brain dead when regularly obliged to follow Zoom, omitting nothing (6)
10 Music maker mixed piña colada and evicted cad (7)
11 Unnatural respect for ghostly figure (7)
12 A wickedness returned, full of spirit (5)
13 One out of five follows Charles stripped, the clown! (9)
15 I track rotter making Halloween enquiry (5,2,5)
19 Knave wild to learn new Halloween decoration (4-1-7)
24 Bad claret ruined site for games (4,5)
26 The French back branch concern… (5)
27 …for a Tory delivering address (7)
29 Push family to provide raw material for 19 across (7)
30 Quiet! I’ve registered reaction to 11 across (6)
31 Freeze on punctuation not working (4,4)
Down
1 Aspen all the rage when it’s reported you leave (6)
2 Coordinate tangled sail after second boatswain weed! (6)
3 First settler is very close to a jetty, says Spooner (7)
4 Call for three teas and a dance (3-3-3)
6 Done? Stir tea and indulge in gluttony (7)
7 Flutter, small flier! (3)
8 Time without end bent tiny tree (8)
9 One who employs leaders of universal science earns respect (4)
14 Regularly busk central Odessa with little instruments (4)
16 Unwrapped long article with spy at the scene (2-3-4)
17 Bouncers drunkenly jeer Scot (8)
18 Mark finals of physics, music, drama and Khmer (4)
20 Scout comet’s core for how things will end (7)
21 Complete guide to way morning turns over a page (4,3)
22 Church absorbs strange lack of laughter (6)
23 Deem no disaster foretold (6)
25 For Welsh lad, stink precedes greeting!(4)
28 Tore strips off valid sportsman (3)