Countdown John 1

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Across
  1. 3. Fashionable girl sailed around the world (10)
  2. 5. Two men take time to make a convert (9)
  3. 6. Irish singer hugs one legal officer (7)
  4. 7. See 8 down
  5. 9. The woman is half Middle Eastern (5)
  6. 12. Hear it’s chilly before escapees arrived
  7. 16. The woman puzzled Neil Reader (5,5)
  8. 18. We are heard trading places in Northern city for money (6)
  9. 23. Book original garden partner (4,2,4)
  10. 24. Man about this place (4)
  11. 25. Two players need their cues from group leader (7,5)
  12. 28. German and Scot are back where Darcy lives (8,3)
  13. 29. British government possibly where I farm in Scotland (7)
  14. 30. Queen goes after terrorists in the Middle East (4)
Down
  1. 1. Former colony ruined native Frenchman (7)
  2. 2. Unscramble ape cyphers to access another dimension (10)
  3. 4. Japanese film hails James informally (7)
  4. 5. Out cold – R&B has no king (6,3,6)
  5. 8. Drug before river races will slow you down (5,5)
  6. 10. Debar drunk pilot (5)
  7. 11. Fair bill for bookish schoolboy (4,7)
  8. 13. Monopoly’s orange Vine Street houses french house (7)
  9. 14. Clergyman, composer, cricketer! (4,5)
  10. 15. Drunk drunk flies we hear long ago (10)
  11. 17. Clean bowled by Gibbs (5)
  12. 19. See 16 across
  13. 20. Square meal in Italy served with a… (6)
  14. 21. …sprinkling of basil – I wasn’t there on either occasion (6)
  15. 22. French leader clothes French boy (11)
  16. 26. Secret service plant now! (6)
  17. 27. Three men - then new pop group! (7,4)