Geography No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Geography) cryptic puzzle: 35 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. Blue-green, with a nervous twitch — living in water (7)
5. Truth about the drug shows one aspect (5)
8. Journey on ecstasy? Rubbish! (5)
10. Scots long for pasture, where the spooks are (7)
11. Time dial reset — affected by the moon (5)
13. Copy Cross at the highest point (4)
14. Golf club touches down where the trees are (8)
16. Prima donna keen to turn back (4)
17. Capture a shot in the studio (4)
18. Laotian currency? Nap on it (3)
19. A lot of gravity in the Chinese brotherhood (4)
21. Six balls finished (4)
22. Coppers pocketing new range of hills (8)
25. A yam cooked by ancient Americans (4)
26. Sprang up when the plate was smashed (5)
28. Superhuman deity? Fancy that! (7)
29. Grass taking time for the swindle (5)
30. No lunatic, but a rolling stone (5)
31. Coach the runner wears (7)

Down

1. Pull at a religious pamphlet (7)
2. Joined-up realm where the pound is spent (6,7)
3. All square after a diet is broken (4)
4. Battery with nothing: a big fiddle (5)
5. Fashionable inside, the agent was docked (5)
6. Mountain pass, laboratory and speech make a joint effort (13)
7. Messed about with a strange mixture to dye (5)
9. Tart taking in a Greek character — a little sprite (5)
12. Rouse a weak, unsettled knight (6)
15. So Pope, upset, has to resist (6)
19. Nearly empty after time, so lead one on (5)
20. Australian composer, by the sound of it, is a farmer (7)
22. Heathen suffering a pang (5)
23. Somehow I laid out an epic (5)
24. Vote in the chosen ones (5)
27. Primarily, a strikingly immense area! (4)

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