Crossword for Fri, 13/Jan/2023

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Across
1: Give Adele a seat in said fortress (7)

5: Grass present round container (7)

9: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

10: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

11: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

12: Deranged parent has right to become a spouse (7)

14: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

15: Someone in favour of wine in jolly good surroundings (9)

17: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

19: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)

20: Photoelectric cell starting to involve, with little hesitation, the receptive area of the brain (9)

21: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

22: Men caught in vile deed should be 'fixed' (7)

24: Control escape (3)

25: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

28: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

29: Twice take heart over raven writers so-called ground parrots (7)

30: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)
Down
1: Getting by with saying It'll cut out tight bends (6,3)

2: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

3: Hope destiny is remarkable - to free the mind (11)

4: Drive off returning outcast (5)

5: Stranger, in turn, had an accident (3-3-3)

6: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

7: Direct object (3)

8: Demand payment? Just so! (5)

13: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

14: Trespass upon a moniker exploited by commercials (4,7)

16: Vulgar and insipid (9)

18: Harry, malign not our national cake! (9)

21: Caress one grand puzzlemaster (5)

23: Stayed only a moment at lewd Western with titillating beginning? Just the opposite! (5)

26: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)

27: A representative may be a scamp (3)




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