Crossword for Fri, 3/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Funny dame getting red (5)

4: 'True men' is false (9)

9: Zoom back from the deeps (5)

10: A French number that is Country or Jazz (9)

11: Hurt a wagtail the day before cracking crossword (9)

14: Balance a small plate (5)

15: Treads for one of the family (7)

16: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

18: Lists scoundrels (5)

20: Shell compensate for loss in certain risky starts (7)

23: How Nero holds one in control (5)

24: Perhaps men sit and eat in a cafe (9)

25: Tool placed under sack as a safety precaution (4,5)

27: Lug worm finally being a symbol (5)

29: An exceptionally attractive person may be met aboard (9)

30: Chump getting past in chasm (5)
Down
1: Do springs help American author? (3,6)

2: Nothing we have to pay (3)

3: Refined women suppressing desires, principally for boys (7)

4: Backblock not all there (3)

5: I'll be stuffed if I'll deal with him!. (11)

6: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

7: Electronic man swallowed spring (7)

8: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)

12: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

13: Trashy dime novel about American sex symbol who's not all there? (5,2,4)

17: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

18: Putting in a nugget, maybe, put a point to venerated one? (7)

19: This would make me a lord (7)

21: In Indonesia, returning from the western part a must (7)

22: Control escape (3)

23: Whacked repeatedly in the ear (5)

26: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)

28: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)




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