1: Cheer supporting blue automaton (5)

4: Loveless sensations resort?! (9)

9: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

11: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

12: Path of planet - or particle (5)

14: Fool to join recital (3)

15: Canoe lost in sea (5)

16: Fires possibly singe it (7)

18: Lion man outraged to be so-called (7)

19: Effective narration (7)

21: Closer to morning, sound of storyteller follows organ (7)

23: The end of a fire (or a month?) (5)

24: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

26: Rapidity with which heat's dissipated (5)

27: In the manner of a girl (3)

28: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

30: Peculiarity of family repeating letter (9)

31: True side (5)

2: Corn whiskey for the French King. (7)

3: Worthless even when recycled (3)

5: Material wealth (9)

6: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

7: Any number follow festival in the Orient (7)

8: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

9: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

10: Have bananas now (3)

13: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

17: John Hancock in great US maneuvers (9)

20: Leon's accepting prohibition from country (7)

22: Stranger is using and supplying (7)

25: Bloody bored inside (3)

29: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)