Crossword for Mon, 19/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Note: rent is free (7)

5: Intrudes with a telephone faux pas? (5,2)

9: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

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

11: Big stink-up. Location is disgusting (7)

13: Love street with lush bird (7)

16: Cover-up file conceals, ultimately, wrongdoing by one female (3,4)

18: Fittingly, use following heart transplant (5)

19: Expose the French heavy weight (3,2)

20: The rope got twisted by a shrub (3-4)

22: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

23: Introduction to knitted/purled English (7)

24: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

28: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

29: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

30: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

Down
1: Get rid of the circle and end the telephone call (4,3)

2: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

3: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

4: Weird canal echo (5)

5: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

6: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

7: Hear Native American appeal (3)

8: Sexually suggestive, and complicated, we hear (7)

12: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

14: Lost pirates wander aimlessly (7)

15: Disturbed intruder, pet disturbed. (11)

17: File abbreviated manuscript before trip promoting graphic series (9)

19: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

21: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

23: Weapon in Clue game (5)

25: Top card? Excellent! (3)

26: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

27: Former name for joint audition (3)





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