Art & Architecture No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Art & Architecture) cryptic puzzle: 34 clues on a 13×13 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Wildly she coos over the one she picks (7)
5. Honest, we're told, in old French money (5)
8. I limit a riot, possibly! (7)
10. Greeting taken in by the Navy - a bird! (5)
11. Journeys losing time make tears (4)
13. Swerve when the rug is turned over at the ancient temple tower (8)
16. Monarch with fish gets a lift (4)
17. Advanced period of abstinence (4)
18. Poem, we hear, was due (4)
19. Untruth from a posh place (4)
20. Quiet listener yields fruit (4)
22. Leaders in basic input/output system produce brief lives (4)
23. Oceans by a headland make the artist's marine view (8)
25. Function without its opening gives an outlet (4)
26. Untie, strangely, and come together (5)
27. Redcoat, oddly dressed, in the style of the thirties (3,4)
30. Nothing, when the knight has gone, is anything (5)
31. Arguments coming back to upset a bedroom (7)

Down

1. Darkened room in which the whole world is turned upside down (6,7)
2. Night bird spotted in the slow lane (3)
3. Pose and take the chair (3)
4. Crossed the Ganges, one becomes a holy man (5)
5. Hunt for a long time (6)
6. Promote a commercial with restive changes (9)
7. Interpretations of firm orders, when the leader goes (13)
9. Home teams show guts (7)
12. Making ready before the pruning (9)
13. Braze awkwardly at the crossing (5)
14. Where all the world's a stage (5)
15. A dun vole, wriggling, is not cared for (7)
21. Say yes to a mushroom in the play (6)
24. Penny placed on the tartan (5)
28. Club raised for the bill (3)
29. Tea, stirred, to consume (3)

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