2: Inspects quantities of beer (5)
5: Hot burnt residue is on hot pot (7)
8: Spot stick-in-the-mud Republican with fan (7)
9: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)
10: Child, bask by the sound (3)
12: Is Asian holy man sinning in Asian capital? (9)
13: European King's threat reported (5)
14: Part of American's eerie pronouncement after a miracle (1,3,3)
16: St. Louis primarily consuming unrefined pastry (7)
18: Circus performer in a European big top (7)
20: Sarah has friends from France on a Greek island (7)
22: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)
24: Play with exaggerated emotions made moral play (9)
26: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)
27: Period email feature (3)
28: British actor in Rocky VII role (7)
29: They are instrumental in petty swindles (7)
30: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)