Across: 1. Swaps as corners sprint back (6) 5. Busy MP at Hyderabad offers what's routinely offered to the bereaved (8) 9. Fizzy cola... dark stuff with plenty of calories! (4) 10. Fresh start to chore list (5) 11. Gangster in Tory leader's embrace (4) 12. In December, Iberians suffering from thiamin deficiency (8) 13. What 24s get people to do in closures is this! (6) :14. Ends when tending to the left: goals that banish repressing... anti dictator! (6) 15. Dunnies plonked in front of famous cathedral without much care (7) 18,21. Unusually large stink 'ere in UK, 1926 action called by 1 24 26 in 5 across with 9 6s (7 6) 21. Coming in behind grand aristocrats (6) 23. Dig worm & grub up with magnesium deficiency (6) 26. Monstrous female clutching man's rear after end of manic mating (8) 27. Place position before 24 (4) 28. 11s continue south (5) 29. Flower like those seen in Belfast mostly (4) 30. Support needs rust treated (8) 31. see 18 Down: 2. Regarding work, English in beginning of growth and end of closure (9) 3. Simple hit sold wildly (7) 4. What followed after line dissolved - second collapse of closures including opening of colliery (9) 5. Place is unusual, i.e. not 18 (7) 6. He does boring work in ermine robes (5) 7. Attire's different for this worker (7) 8. One of 14 - to be in home - cut short as some people do too many of these! (5) 16. What a 24 rep does in rages, so unhinged (9) 17. Measure of drastic changes brought by House of York (9) 19. What could rival nature in importance? If true, run wild! (7) 20. Industrial tactic of 11, with no comic book endings involved (7) 22. Less confident with vernier adjustment (7) 24. Famously horny fellow with no end of manic or monster mating (5) 25. We take the silver, small reward for what we give up (5) Solution: TRADES=SYMPATHY| =E=O=U=P=I=R=O=| COAL=CLEAN=THUG| =P=T=C=C=E=I=R=| BERIBERI=RESIST| =N=S=S=A===T===| RIGHTS=LOOSELY=| =N===O===R===A=| =GENERAL=GENTRY| ===U===O=A=E=D=| BURROW=CONGRESS| =N=T=A=K=I=V=T=| LIEU=GOONS=IRIS| =O=R=E=U=E=E=C=| UNDERSET=STRIKE| Name: 902 - Closure Author: by BenDR Annos-Across: 1. rev( S E + DART ) 5. tel (bu)SY MP AT HY(derabad) 9. *COLA 10. C(hore) + LEAN 11. T(ory) + HUG 12. tel (Decem)BER IBERI(ans) 13. tel (closu)RES IS T(his), ext def :14. rev tails acrostic: goalS thaT banisH repressinG antI dictatoR < &lit 15. LOOS + ELY 18,21. *( LARGE STINK 'ERE ) 21. G + ENTRY 23. rev (WOR(m g)RUB) 26. (mani)C + O(N)GRESS 27. LIE + U 28. GO ON + S 29. IRIS(h) 30. *( NEEDS RUST ) Annos-Down: 2. RE OP + EN IN + G(rowth) 3. *( HIT SOLD ) 4. S + C in *( C(l)OSURES ) 5. *( PLACE IS ) 6. tel (er)MINE R(obes) 7. *( ATTIRE'S ) , ext def 8. R in HOUS(e), ext def 16. *( IN RAGES, SO ) 17. *DRASTIC in Y(or)K 19. *( TRUE RUN ) 20. O C K in LOUT 22. *VERNIER 24. UNI(c)O(r)N 25. AG in WE + S Defs-Across: 1. Swaps 5. what's routinely offered to the bereaved 9. dark stuff with plenty of calories 10. Fresh 11. Gangster 12. suffering from thiamin deficiency 13. What 24s get people to do :14. Ends when tending to the left: goals that banish repressing... anti dictator! (6) :14. Ends when tending to the left: goals that banish repressing... anti dictator! 15. without much care 18,21. in UK, 1926 action called by 1 24 26 in 5 across with 9 6s 21. aristocrats 23. Dig 26. mating 27. Place 28. 11s 29. Flower 30. Support Defs-Down: 2. end of closure 3. Simple 4. What followed 5. not 18 6. He does boring work 7. worker 8. some people do too many of these! 16. What a 24 rep does 17. Measure 19. What could rival nature in importance? 20. Industrial tactic 22. Less confident 24. mating 25. reward for what we give up