1 Price on application riff for Mediterranean shawm (7)

5 Nascent bloom of Kane’s lost childhood (7)

9One of the 28 Across (7,1,7)
10 Dirty plaster (6) 12Cut tag for old fiddler’s necessity (6) 13Search heather at Oban for Muse (6)
15 Alec’s other half? (6) 16Firstly, could Horatio introduce my ex-citing scheme? Rings a bell… (6) < strong
17 Inflict stink by the sound of it (5) 18 F Beith hides agency (3,1,1,1)
19 Decrease instruction, we hear (6)
21 Destroy erect island (5)
22Revise worker (6)
24 Edward’s photo is hot (6)
28 EU “nerd tribes” pop, to reveal what we play! (6,4,5)
29 In short, nasty types (7)
30 One of the 28 Across (7

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1 Used for incoming and outgoing (7)
2 Molten Hades; magma (5,10)
3 You mean a flightless bird? (2,3) 4 English kiln from Scottish staple (4)
5 Before Ainslie and after Wester (4) 6 Saucy dance? (5) 7 Person sneering at pipers is … (5,1,5,4)
8 Native Americans backed Liverpool singer?(7)
11 William’s and John’s destination (7)
12 Sweets from 11 down (7)
14 Singer from Edale (5)
18 Same as 30 Across – but which is the original!? (7)
26 Work up soup (4)
27 Minor confrontation (4)