Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Spectacle, as distinct from spectacles? (7)

6. Use mean tricks to make bells change order (5)

9. Tend towards the extreme edge (5)

10. Offence taken by, for example, Burma (7)

11. In which it is potentially a gang of friends (5)

12. Dance it is droll for a graduate to lead (5)

13. Author somehow lost in play (7)

15. Condition is right for producing ancient Greek coin (6) 16. The rest of the birds come home to it (5)

18. Soft leather used in cushion, apparently (5)

20. Moral position taken in the thick of it (5)

21. Long to spend some time with Newton (5)

22. Self-existent as the bed one has just risen from? (6)

25. I’d get rid of 11 like this (7)

26. A senior producer of berries (5)

27. Mendicant brother going the long way around religious instruction (5)

28. Sherry doesn’t start cool, or so it might appear (7) 29. Fight to do away with it (5)

30. Alighieri wrote the end at variance with his name (5) 31. Shorn deer has to move about (7)

DOWN

1. Huge, in an Alpine way (11)

2. Might look sexually attractive in blue (6)

3. Exact reference to the canons served an alternative version (7,3,5)

4. Get over dye by excluding no-one (9)

5. Little comfort is to be had in the soft part of bread (5)

6. Leave people to rest somehow in a large shop (10,5)

7. The promptitude of death by execution (8)

8. Narrowly observe a wire loop (3)

14. Of course, a disc may show how one’s done in the past (5,6) 17. They’re falling, for crying out loud! (9)

19. How I open map of a buried city (8)

23. Esteem paid to an ace in a no-trump hand (6) 24. Love to hold a party in a different era (5) 27. A passing interest that will almost die away (3)