Cryptic Crossword Puzzle #9

Cryptic Crossword Grid 9

Across
1 Turn safe around left, not right (5)
6 Apartment blow-out (4)
10 Pass time asleep in resort (6)
11 First lady is never on the inside (3)
12 Owe hearing to water of Lourdes (3)
13 Perot tends, at heart, to be spoiled (6)
14 What Indian women put on airs about (4)
16 Bachelor apartment concerning priest (5)
18 Paramount holds right to most dazzling (9)
20 Rioting near a stadium (5)
22 Notice Mr. McMahon is following that man (4)
24 A leg is mashing fermented fodder (6)
26 Grape arbor shelters green vegetable (3)
28 Plant that climbs into bloodstream, we hear (3)
29 Turned up count with no contamination (6)
30 Reportedly snatch watches (4)
31 Medieval subjects heard in plays on the Web (5)
Down
1 Failure to look up professional charges (4)
2 In the style of God, Moslems say (1,2)
3 Deviously, I lure a girl (6)
4 A bit of parsley? No, out of season (5)
5 Aesop's hug twisted gullet (9)
6 Cheese is centerpiece of cafe table (4)
7 Rent second half of ballet (3)
8 Opposed to a poem (6)
9 Circus venue exhibits Einstein's first principle (5)
15 A railroad I've come to (6)
17 Rising sword split doctor farther in (6)
18 Second grade is accepted as foundation (5)
19 Heard of those people in that place (5)
21 Sleeps through most of C-SPAN retrospective (4)
23 Doris and Dennis vocalizing in a stupor (4)
25 Odds of laymen making sodium hydroxide (3)
27 Flea returned, dropping off a brownie (3)

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