3  Put down computer network before conclusion of synod (4)

 6  Ecstasy & junk for one in clerical position (4)

10 She serves tea cold (5)

11 Setter is distressed about some small melancholy (9)

12 This orc’s troubled Bilbo (say) with a riddle (9,6)

14/15/23          Children's song book with romance stanza rhyme scheme doesn't have Dickensian villain (3,3,5,5)

16 Leave it, boy, it’s going over your head (7)

18 It was read to mobs from Olympic city with discretion (4,3)

20 Where you’ll see Shaker fly, perhaps (6)

22 What a Bertie Bassett vending machine does to make a world (2,5,3,5)

26 Put an end to, say, German snack food (6,3)

28 29 start to research the elephantine character (5)

29 Two graduates make a cake (4)

30 Dad’s plain heartless (4)

31 Lou’s left front room to get a little fish (4)

 1  What one does when pantophobic, forgetting terms for cooker rings (5)

 2  You might find wine in this minute pub, or alcoholics outside (7)

 4  Off to Saturn, a traveller (9)

 5  What Juliet did embracing Romeo? Forgot her lines! (5)

 6  Party time for Mark (3)

 7  They tried donkeys, including one zebra at first (7)

 8  Losing heart, Snowy scribbled runes (4)

 9  Lowers me into caves around midday (7)

13 Russ sneakily brought in drug to those who want it (5)

15 See 14 Across

16 Destroys clothing chain after starting to say “You just can’t get the staff” (6,3)

17 Reveller lost lad among drunken gladiators (7)

19 Cancer treatment of comatose Catholic’s removed (7)

21 Part of bonce (re brains)! (7)

23 See 14 Across

24 Regular payments for Rolls? (4)

25 More touchy paper’s head scratched in lifting altar screen (5)

27 Something to drink in Bucharest (3)