1: Mend a split state (11)

5: I am reported to leer (3)

7: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

9: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

10: On second thoughts, rising fish glitter (7)

12: Frost to cover the cake (3)

13: In fear of wheat head (3)

15: Pass mould (3)

16: In the manner of a girl (3)

17: Cover-up file conceals, ultimately, wrongdoing by one female (3,4)

19: Unfathomable letters from Lamb, say (7)

21: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

23: Confine Grandma for a time to make flag (7)

26: Top card? Excellent! (3)

27: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

28: Fool to join recital (3)

30: Start reducing salt? (3)

31: Classical musician composing her opus (7)

34: Compete with life in France (3)

35: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

36: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

37: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

2: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

3: Draw the knot (3)

4: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

5: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

6: Bundy under English seabird thats forever! (7)

7: Corpse apt to turn up in science fiction (5)

8: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

11: Ripen mangoes evenly (3)

14: Beams in reverse alphabetical order (7)

15: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

16: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)

18: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

20: Club with space for some money (3)

21: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

22: Anger that is constraining response (3)

24: Flower festival is pointless (5)

25: Short time for the Irish (5)

27: Later round without an opponent (3)

29: Not here? No, no! (5)

32: Standard style of music rejected (3)

33: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

34: I've lost struggle (3)