Crossword for Sat, 13/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Picture a dessert without topping (3)

3: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

5: Blacked out counter-studies about court (7)

9: Clip securing a bow at the front of sister's dress (5)

10: Told about Trotsky hoarding cash (3,2,2)

11: Mean a favourite defensive work (7)

13: Expert in scriptural interpretation in Devon River to fetch sweetheart (7)

14: It might reside in monument! (5)

16: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

17: Capital investment producing hard faces (9)

20: Ornamentation used in the a la mode coronet (5)

21: Spring inside proper old theatre (7)

22: Celebrations to the light, right, every which way (7)

24: Comes to as Ken from Perth gets in (7)

25: Some feudal assassin in Japan (5)

28: Surprisingly, neither was in place. (7)

29: Direct object (3)

30: Number One in facetiousness (3)
Down
1: Residue has scattered (3)

2: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

3: First-class puzzle originally from Ontario is available (2,3)

4: Place to clean up bit of trash in club meeting area (7)

5: Outstanding saltine crackers? (7)

6: Do another version of Kerouac's work (2,3,4)

7: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

8: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

11: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

12: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

15: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

18: A strain crippled master craftsman (7)

19: Recipe including bull's heart is first class (7)

23: Poison with spite (5)

26: Ran amok, with club for a weapon (3)

27: Top card? Excellent! (3)




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