For the love of words

A crossword to put your mind to.

Across

1 Relating to the natural world; 28 down (13)

10 A person who puts a case (9)

11 “I want!” (One-third of an ABBA song?) (5)

12 A Japanese method of organic waste fermentation (anagram of “A kibosh!”) (7)

13 Relating to a religious doctrine (7)

14 A curve; an electrical discharge; something a story may have (3)

15 An opening for air to get in, and for 8 down to... (7) 18 ...escape (for a gas or a liquid) (7)

20 Becoming able to cope with something unpleasant (7) 23 With everything included (and at the end of the story?) (3,4)

25 Become unwell (3)

26 A hard-to-define special quality – a certain “je ne sais quoi” (1,6)

27 The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa (7)

29 Condescend (to sound like Hamlet, perhaps?) (5) 30 Mythological “chained lady” rescued by Perseus (9) 31 Evergreen shrubs bearing clusters of bell-shaped flowers (13)

Down

2 Kim, an ex-actress (5)

3 The cutting edge in dentition? (7) 4 Being tested (2,5)

5 African country traditionally known as an exporter of fine leather (7) 6 Give insufficient attention (7) 7 Animal whose name means “little armoured one” in Spanish (9)

8 We inhale about 45 per cent more of this than, for example, Sir Walter Raleigh (6,7)

9 A butterfly (and perhaps a cowardly naval commander?) (6,7) 16 Excessively fastidious (9)

17 A very small charge! (3)

19 A surfer’s destination? (3) 21 Chanted in a monotonous cadence (7) 22 Judy’s flower arrangement? (7) 23 Owner of a magic lamp

(David Bowie’s was sane) (7)

24 A cowboy who “knows the ropes” ? (7) 28 The colour that may follow “putting” (5)