Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Bewail. 4 Lambaste. 10 Artefacts. 11 Sonic. 12 Cordial. 13 Refusal. 14 Bootleg. 15 Plight. 19 Avocet. 21 Certain. 25 Careful. 27 Placebo. 28 Prior. 29 Xenophobe. 30 Nonsense. 31 Pectin.

Down: 1 Blanch. 2 Water polo. 3 Inflict. 5 Assert. 6 Bashful. 7 Sinus. 8 Escalate. 9 Scalper. 16 Guidepost. 17 Saucepan. 18 Respond. 20 Enforce. 22 Traipse. 23 Plexus. 24 Modern. 26 Reign.