Special, Friday 14 Sep 2018, Kartikeyan

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6PM (Anotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

All clues marked with an asterisk (*) carry the same theme.

ACROSS
9   Newsman follows a french crude supply uncut (9)
10 Mister taken around borders of Telengana by step (5)
11 Tea maker makes fun rise (7)
12 Soviet grandmaster returned through Norway, though a Baltic native (7)
13 Working out of glory into minute parts* (4)
14 Perfect users reflect standard time* (3)
15 Saw bachelor returning to bed (6)
19 Either way it is a location finder* (5)
20 England ex-cricketer beheads yellow metal (3)
21 Concepts an early sign of  inventive designs, encouraged applied sciences(5)
22 Excited parent in awe (6)
23 Obstruct a pressure unit* (3)
24 Regularly tended to this exotic tuber (4)
27 Ten in pricey coats love going for music vigourously (7)
29 Called a lunatic Spanish Mayor (7)
30 & 25 Down; Could possibly a fielder block sunshine?* (5,5)
31 Ramayana main course cut short to focal point* (9)

DOWN
1   Mountain at quay endlessly with a cause for  binary interaction of cyclones* (9,6)
2   Experienced person starting an organization is a corrupter (10)
3   Scorched judge out of order (5)
4   Build-up of carbon in volatile reaction* (9)
5   Section of silly dispute about an eclogue (5)
6   Identical value from all directions is nothing right in debatable topic* (9)
7   Directional receiver given to an ascetic leaving Ohio for good* (4)
8   Smart moisteners designed to measure visual range* (15)
16 He toiled to invent a surveying instrument* (10)
17 Weather reconnaissance device falls on Germany* (9)
18 One sugar intolerant person reported a thermodynamic process* (9)
25 See 30 Across*
26 Circuiteers regularly having a more frigid outlook* (5)
28 Leaders of Royal Academy of Britain make meteorological observations* (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at KARTHIK 4

http://icrossword.com/share/?id=6187_MY4TH..puz

Enjoy.