Crossword for Mon, 31/Oct/2022

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Across
1: Weir contacting Hollywood star (5)

4: Concluding words: cloning is wrong (2, 7)

8: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

9: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

11: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

12: Mend a split state (11)

14: Overseer required because of handle turning (7)

15: Hand dog (7)

17: Baby's things even discovered in past (7)

19: Mean to declare how old you are (7)

21: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

23: Abridged fibre project (3)

25: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

26: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

29: Beauty held a label up as being the merest trifle (9)

30: Sister leaves, seeing torment of supernatural servant (5)
Down
1: Slangily, hip old English author (5)

2: A right given to colliery worker or sailor (7)

3: Odds of niece being born (3)

4: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

5: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

6: Group of eight initially outwits coup to enter Tripoli (5)

7: 'Wrong and sick,' I quote... almost (7)

10: Woody is to eviscerate Human Resources, that is (7)

12: Heavenly visitor to arrive on time (5)

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

14: To leaf I turn, becoming leafy (7)

16: Frost over mid-January during epic exploit (3,2)

18: We hear you will record part of a Christmas celebration (4,3)

20: Put off a record player and run out after orchestra leader (7)

22: Tie torn coats (7)

24: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)

27: Copy of top ten missing (3)

28: Get into the archeology scene. (3)




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