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Across
- 1. Wordplay is hard to take advantage of (6)
- 4. A ball with very small proceeds (8)
- 10. Scrub bishop filled with filth (7)
- 11. Fractured season beginning to derail around first of January (7)
- 12. After six balls, near defeat! (8)
- 13. Handy fuel wasted by American (6)
- 15. Exploit group after money (4)
- 17. Style fest turned into medium for viral propagation in Africa (6,3)
- 20. Check fraud's caravan (9)
- 21. Spotted amongst returning brigade yesterday (4)
- 24. Everyone runs around the day before pre-university course (1,5)
- 25. Firm overwhelmed by extraordinary income of money (8)
- 28. Be suspended, having patched up bad clutch (7)
- 29. Perhaps a very small mark that's red? (7)
- 30. Awareness to retain differentiator, creating anticipation (8)
- 31. Cold reduced and fizzled out (6)
Down
- 1. Renders each version on point (8)
- 2. In part, snob leverages aristocrat (5)
- 3. Control ultimately helps one producing spells (6)
- 5. Physician's patent, say, for medical apparatus? (4)
- 6. Corrected exactly after commercial by editor (8)
- 7. Clue fairly complicated? Not Spinner's, precisely! (9)
- 8. Deal accepts demand draft for hamper (6)
- 9. Call to embrace theism destroyed by science (9)
- 14. Steps from affected castes gaining voice (9)
- 16. Solo needs tightening up of unresolved parts (5,4)
- 18. Piece together animal insignia missing tail (8)
- 19. Erudite is dead cute, somehow (8)
- 22. Cleans up wife's remains (6)
- 23. Mellow following England's win (6)
- 26. Beer poured into empty mugs for men (5)
- 27. Periods – a girl's everyday suffering, basically (4)