Across
1 With no shape, don’t create so much (8) (FORM)(LESS)
5 Aboard, maps redrawn in sudden bursts of activity (6)SPASMS
9 Mother’s mother puts a daughter in refurbished dolly (3,4) [OLD L(A)(D)Y]
10 Round and round around the model (6)ROTUND
12 Rain party? (6)SHOWER
13 A number, working, noticed the carpenter’s tool (5,3)TENON SAW
16 Bring to ruin leaders of Uttarakhand notoriously delaying operations (4)UNDO
17 Correspondence of study group — publishers exit with fifty per cent of presence after a bit of uproar (10)CONGRUENCE
19 Nothing low by the way in this part of the town (4,6) HIGH STREET
21 I led going hither and thither, without purpose (4)IDLE
24 National hurriedly nearing one (8) NIGERIAN
25 Alarm caused by bed put back — it’s wrong (6)TOCSIN
27 Patron’s right in court (6) CLIENT
28 State half of them are angry (7)EMIRATE
29 Take in a summary (6) DIGEST
30 New range of the French handbombs (8)GRENADES
Down
1 Part 1 of a saying FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD Today is April 1
2 Concerning dead forest tree (7) RE D WOOD
3 Departs with pages? (6) [LEAVES (DD)
4 Utters consent in ship (4)SAYS
6 Pressure on rascal to include old line in introduction (8)PROLOGUE
7 Surrounds hovels steeped in wrong-doing (5,2)SHUTS IN
8 Unhappy it’s dead (3)SAD
11 Held sway: it wasn’t fair, we’re told (7) REIGNED
14 Part 2 of a saying
15 Part 4 of a saying
18 Violinist’s items — what the skimpily clad might display (1-7) G-STRINGS
20 Smothering joke — good one I started narrating to girl (7) GAGGING
22 Brute’s dead — a celebrity’s dead (7) DASTARD
23 Many — ten — get new soothing liquid (6) LOTION
26 Part 3 of a saying
27 Physician’s thrown up fish (3) COD
:clap::clap::clap: An enjoyable puzzle with topical clues!