1: Open present yonder (4,5)

5: A clown circled at a distance (5)

8: A garden ornament makes men go mad (5)

9: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

13: Making a comeback in White Horse Inn, a musical heroine (5)

15: Security chief purged a pair of generals (5)

16: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

18: Rabbit (male) with nest of bunnies? (5)

20: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

22: Hun paid out for French prince (7)

23: Confuse cast (5)

25: Notes spent in Germany (5)

26: Poet or old king on crest (9)

28: Dixie, perhaps, greeting Japanese food (5)

29: They secure money for the government, so we hear (5)

30: A language one may read about (9)

2: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

3: Draw the knot (3)

4: Aliens set off (3)

6: Native American involved in drug problem exposed (5)

7: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

10: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

11: Daytime 8-down repelled Marx (5)

12: Mend a split state (11)

14: Tender translator of runes (5)

17: The lowest point in a dire section (5)

19: Broadcast share in genuine show trial (9)

21: A cow further down? (5)

24: Remnant of the past form of government, not local! (5)

25: Backblock not all there (3)

27: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

28: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)