CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Ace teams up with 6 to mix paint (7) 5 Closes small cabins (5) 11 Brilliant society girl gets to square unpaid obligation (11,4) 12 Sets off subdivisions of FBI agents (1-3) 13 Centrally heated vessel suitable for making butter (5) 14 I sup originally with Pope (4) 17 Master mind using misdirection about ultimate knowledge (6) 18 Climb north-east face where no two sides are the same (7) 20 You are said to be pocketing ill-gotten purse from one who has seized power (7) 22 Mercy displayed around upper limits of virtue (6) 24 Stared open-mouthed when penny disappeared as Scots went (4) 25 Bury one religiously about second Armageddon (5) 26 Honour dutch contribution to indian language (4) 29 Is spy fiction hero the pawnbroker’s runner? (3,3,4,5) 30 Trap neatly concealed temporary breathlessness (5) 31 Boring insect is bizarre emitter (7)

DOWN 2 Say no to inclusion at a bargain price without carbon being dumped (2,3,6,4) 3 To the French, to English, to Americans, it’s a car (4) 4 Curls up with intuitions (7) 6 French writer to embrace with love (4) 7 One CEO is ignored at specially approved edition of film (3,9,3) 8 Branch that may bend, they say (5) 9 Rustic dance performed under fruit tree (6) 10 Secretly stores saint’s remains (7) 15 Insubstantial writing originally on observation game (5) 16 French composer forms fungus excursion, I hear (5) 19 Latin bible found despoiled in e.g. vault (7) 21 Beat it for drainage (3-3) 22 Use prop to construct end (7) 23 Uninitiated slags off public transport (5) 27 Man returning from ancient Iranian state (4) 28 Glue with first-rate ingredient discovered on Pacific island (4)