1. Reportedly the Order of the Bath dominates this Asian land (4)
4. Joint box prefix identifies a large animal (briefly?) (5)
7. Executed chickens were devilish folk (4)
9. Reportedly nobody's your sister (3)
10. Figurehead? (10)
11. If you steam rice, ultimately, you create vapor (4)
12. Eternal city? (7)
13. Irritable general (7)
15. Device that measures force on an Alpine plateau? (6,7)
18. Sort of maniac who's almost courteous, an inhabitant of the Eastern Seaboard (13)
22. Joins some European explorers' objectives in taking English currency (7)
23. Why, in other words, did some parishioners wear a yellow hat for Easter? (4,3)
26. Proverbial indicator of Napoleon's skill level? (4)
27. The post office can no longer deliver Jerry Garcia's mail! (4,6)
28. A particular cross in the attic, perhaps (3)
29. Whether fully resolved or no, she is a woman (4)
30. Signs of departure? (5)
31. Chef's measurement of speed (4)

2. Shut up! Let it breathe! Put a stop to it! (6)
3. The allotment is found before a citation's indication--or the citation itself--is cut short (5)
4. The guilty scapegrace will shamefacedly string up the setter (7)
5. The sound of a banana telephone? (4)
6. No, a riot ran riot by the lake (7)
7. Chico Marx's infectious power? (9)
8. Common sense may be an exercise in reasoning, whether circular or no (8)
14. Looks somewhat like a quarrel! (5)
16. Obliterate the great age--a historical model is revealed in the bones (9)
17. Captain Spaulding's little brother briefly ventured upriver; he was really quite a gasbag (8)
19. Work excessively, by all accounts, yet failed to return in time (7)
20. Inspires one and three-quarters, taking into account 9000 in 2001 (7)
21. Even when they're not levelheaded, they're still often practical (6)
24. Carried to Edward (5)
25. Onetime Byzantine city found back near Izmir--a beautfiul place, indeed (4)