Hindu Xword 8212

Across

1 Never does a dunce find the school periods so simple (4,5)

6 Part of thing each door needs (5) HINGE

9 Combination of elements (7) AMALGAM

10 Raised without a decent pedigree (3,4) LOW LINE

11 Go-between negotiators (6)

12 Eastern verse becomes oppressive (6) SEVERE

15 Points to my negotiator being a spy (5,5) ENEMY AGENT

16 Hearsay gossip (4)

18 Essential foundation (4) BASE

19 Deviation of lateral bend (10)

23 Vegetables for use in bowls (6)

25 Completed movement in series (6) STREAM(?)

28 Shedding granite to pieces (7) TEARING

29 Provisions prepared for use (7)

30 Side step by trickery (5) DODGE

31 Put things right after a bath (9)

Down

1 Originate from tea name (7) EMANATE

2 Battered and out of form (9) SHAPELESS

3 Closely put together (7)

4 Beat down quietly on the inclined plane (4) RAMP

5 Understanding fish (4) SOLE(?)

6 Hesitate to cry out for a glaring error (6) HOWLER

7 Coolness in danger (5) NAIVE(?)

8 Undivided whole (7) ELEMENT

13 White bird stuck in tangled tree (5) EGRET

14 Corner of the bend (5) ANGLE

17 Postscripts for concluding programmes (9) SEQUELANT(?)

18 Blindly intolerant I got into bed (7) BIGOTED

20 Cut the ice left in the dead skin at the base of the fingernail (7) CUTICLE

21 Provoked the sempstress? (7) TEMPTED

22 Request the pleasure of someone's company (6)

24 The Spanish and English type of African deer (5) ELAND(?)

26 A rag back of a seaweed (4) AGAR

27 We seem to aid the greedy somehow (4)