Crossword for Tue, 23/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Migrate to swing and Joplin tunes (7)

5: Deep sleep, father recalled, is fitting (7)

9: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

10: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

11: Later round without an opponent (3)

13: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

16: Rise above fad, carrying recycled cans (9)

17: Balance a plate of fish? (5)

18: Drive off returning outcast (5)

20: Coats need woven yarns (9)

22: Black arts and demons concerned with Homer's issue? (4,7)

23: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

25: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

28: I am reported to leer (3)

29: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)

30: English scenes reproduced for 'Nature' (7)

Down
1: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

2: First get a French weapon. (3)

3: Maybe I'm upset with reason (7)

4: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

5: Toothpaste brand at Target? (3)

6: Jimmy Garner's cops (7)

7: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

8: One wink, or forty (4-3)

12: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

14: Too many weapons perhaps for this type of bowling! (7)

15: Pal obtains rations (7)

18: Sex drives don't initiate. Alibi? Two from Mexico. (7)

19: Keep an unfriendly attitude (7)

21: Farm animals put on islands (7)

24: Argument in the meeting (5)

26: On the canvas from third strike (3)

27: Copy of top ten missing (3)

28: One may be a very long time (3)





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