Across
9
It loves most precipitous hill starts (5)
10
Pacific islands object about having to accept English ways (9)
11
Revolutionary phase – article gets time wrong (3,6)
12
Unlikely Oscar for ‘Killers Working Together’ (5)
13
Attackers of Republican supporters (7)
15
Nothing gets over pass ahead of northern city (7)
17
Secret clubs don’t prevail (5)
20
Queen’s favourite element: congress (5)
22
Moon-like ring associated with tribal revelry (7)
25
Thumb prodded into awkward person in government department (7)
26
Republic locks king out – ‘It’s over!’ (5)
27
Bigwig hides underwear (surprise!) right in instrument (9)
30
Debauched feature of corgi a sticking-point (9)
31
Southern food plants (5)
Down
1
Military officer guarding extra-large stray (4)
2
One’s favourite island has vitality that’s contagious (8)
3
Old-style, you extracted teeth (not top) (4)
4
Continent holding back world money – delightful stuff! (8)
5
A pull-out includes recipe, more than one in fact (6)
6
Meetings to resist cutting measures (10)
7
Foreign spy ring confiscates church film (6)
8
‘Aspects of vice’ lectures (4)
13
Toulouse-Lautrec took content that’s oddly-numbered (5)
14
Airline holds suitable IC cert. for a type of energy (10)
16
Informal footwear on one backward holiday island (5)
19
Give up rugby player as a sweetener (8)
21
Irregular Roman senate and people with nothing for queen on acid – deplorable (8)
23
Watershed follows start of broadcast link (6)
24
Live broadcast attempt is heartless frivolity (6)
26
Peg trembled without a top (4)
28
Special lifts to be installed in hospital recess (4)
29
Society cuts bank job (4)