Crossword for Sat, 23/Jan/2021

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Across
1: Immediately placed in an awkward situation (2,3,4)

6: On return, for example, put back costume (3-2)

9: Like a big cat, snaky fish consumes Spanish toddler (7)

10: True gem discovered within landscape feature (3-4)

11: Some leading trios are essentially reenacting poems (4,5)

13: Seaport of royal Tamerlane? (5)

16: Highways or turning spots (5)

17: Banker maintains a Greek swimmer (7)

19: Little singer returned, following band to total a hairy little mother with seating for one. (7)

20: French singer eats bit of leftover rice dish (5)

22: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

24: See Dennis, unfortunately, in poverty (9)

25: Points about dangerous wires can invigorate. (7)

28: Personal belief: IPO in no trouble (7)

29: Year inside for undone expert (5)

30: Superfluous request for payment received by Communist soldier (9)
Down
1: Uncovered some letters written back in Sumerian epoch (4-3)

2: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

3: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

4: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

5: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

6: Attack set up by funny-looking little green man (5)

7: Start reducing salt? (3)

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

12: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

14: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

15: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

18: Speaker with power (Irish), but no pith, develops a frog (9)

19: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

21: One implement for catching tuna damaged the fins (7)

23: Paradise without second shelter? (5)

25: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

26: Non-clerical song (3)

27: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)




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