The Sea No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (The Sea) 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. Steadfast aunts go off to church (7)
5. Stable females give bad dreams the night off (5)
8. At college, courted and revised (7)
10. Will a man carry this beast of burden? (5)
11. Milne's bear rolled over in the ring (4)
13. Norse craft yearns to be trendy (8)
16. Grand old you (4)
17. Keen on some dolphin tours (4)
18. Sunken fence? Very funny! (2-2)
19. A painful thing to say? (4)
20. Besides, eels wriggle (4)
22. Jolts vessels (4)
23. The sonar playing up in the German Ocean (5,3)
25. Note for myself and the medical officer (4)
26. Eddy from south-west Ireland (5)
27. Excuse fellow stuck in traffic cone (7)
30. A timber at right angles to the keel (5)
31. Settler moved post (7)

Down

1. Portsmouth resort takes on mate for Pacific waters (5,5,3)
2. Help one with papers (3)
3. Catch ten hauled up (3)
4. Spa hotel kept by wealthy drones (5)
5. Slander African country's good name (6)
6. Tavern on the way home (9)
7. Sour drinks for crack shots (13)
9. Stop following snake on road surface (7)
12. White rose arranged differently (9)
13. Tempts to break rules (5)
14. Rain in Jakarta hides a Japanese spy (5)
15. Tempest editor raged (7)
21. Salutation heard at leaving or meeting, initially! (6)
24. Stand out in extra large, reportedly (5)
28. Crackpot upended cask (3)
29. Woe, unfortunately, to be in the red (3)

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