Crossword for Thu, 26/Jan/2023

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Across
1: Cull out from top ten (3)

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

8: Ms. Lane swallows last of lean cuts of meat (5)

9: Big problem for police: one kitten's crying in hunger (5,4)

11: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

12: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

14: Removes from office and bags (5)

16: Take Chair in university (3)

17: ...or stuffed with the alternative (5)

18: Quietly instigate a witch-hunt (5)

19: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

21: Hovers over weaving implements (5)

23: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

25: Pate topping primarily honey and tamari? (3)

26: Spread Dianne's pearls around (9)

28: I got by in Los Angeles or a North African state (5)

29: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

30: Call for help oddly stops (3)

Down
1: Strangely, Salerno is a city in France (7)

2: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

3: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

4: In Cuba, eliminating a U.S. nightmare (7)

5: Distinct identity based in circumstance (7)

6: Number One in facetiousness (3)

7: A small vault is said to be round about the rail support (7)

10: Has beach porno upset those repulsed by Web developers? (13)

13: Wind coils up (5)

15: Vapour trapped in paste amethyst (5)

18: Crazy macabre American authors outside making perfumed hair applications (7)

19: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

20: Sells rides on a bicycle, from the sound of it (7)

22: Upended Sparta's rulers (7)

24: Gibson working for shareholders' profit (5)

27: Aliens set off (3)





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