Cryptic
Across
1 Film some of the Bantu? (4)
3 Germanic richness, almost, instrument imbued into anonymous piece (5-5)
9 Resort in Argentina to tape mallard let loose (3,3,5)
11 University losing link to local river (3)
12 Aerobic exercise in Puerto Rican town (7)
13 A holiday home? Not mid-Wales – a place in Spain (5)
15 Some electricity leads to unrest in LA (5)
16 Plant in German city, somewhere near Stuttgart (9)
18 Funny pen pal, Les, writing back, reporting on place in Switzerland (9)
21 State of a Greek mountain house (5)
23 Red River seen in Spanish, and in German it’s OK? (5)
25 Mussels English shipped from fashionable place in French city (7)
27 High Priest ‘outed’ in Heliopolis? (3)
28 Angolan home created for a flower from Pennsylvania (11)
29 Ottoman army Scot put against one from Central Asia (10)
30 Canterbury’s at the spiritual heart of this superhero (4)

Down
1 Meet Zambian web of intrigue crossing this border? (10)
2 City of western France, perhaps the east… (7)
4 …one from 2, maybe in translation, to fly quietly over to East London area? (9)
5 Fabulous Shangri-La, grin not, incredibly is a real place in the Himalayas (5)
6 Wish Ali properly used the language? (7)
7 Sichuan City’s team to get into their kit shortly (7)
8 One from Zurich finds no lead here in Alaska (4)
10 Important men from the East turn up bearing old verse (5)
14 The way to a precious metal covering, a kind of shirt, found in Bavarian town (10)
17 Spanish site’s a hit in Frisco, first, and all over California (9)
19 Mineral type in France French patriarch found around Rhode Island river (7)
20 Set out to make consummate Vietnamese sauce (4,3)
21 One to issue a Basque name for Pamplona (5)
22 Bad blood between a mid-West state and Kansas City? (7)
24 A new kind of bread from a dale in Scotland (5)
26 Church officer may be an Irishman (4)

Quick
Across
1 Bantu people and language (4)
3 Proto-English (5-5)
9 Argentinean resort and fishing port (3,3,5)
11 River of eastern England connected with academe (3)
12 Puerto Rico port and rum distillery town (7)
13 Province and its capital in N Spain (5)
15 District of Los Angeles, scene of race rioting in 1965 (5)
16 Ancient German city, at the heart of the 15th century Great Swabian League (9)
18 Swiss demi-canton and its capital (9)
21 The Gem State, the 43rd of the Union (5)
23 Region of NE Spain, responsible for famous, mainly red, wine (5)
25 Capital of the French department of Allier (7)
27 High Priest of the Judges period, perhaps the grandson of Aaron (3)
28 Pennsylvania river of the American War of Independence, a tributary of the Allegheny (11)
29 Central Asian whose capital is at Ashgabat (10)
30 English county (4)

Down
1 Citizen of the former S Rhodesia (10)
2 Breton city, built by Colbert as a naval base in 1666 (7)
4 As called by their own, one from Japan (9)
5 Capital of Tibet (5)
6 Bantu tongue modified by Arabic in E Africa (7)
7 City of Sichuan, on the Yalong River (7)
8 Mapping misnomer giving name of Alaskan port and peninsula (4)
10 Muslim rulers (5)
14 Industrial Bavarian town on the Danube (10)
17 City of the Castilla-Leon region of Spain, site of Wellington’s victory in 1812 (9)
19 Spring at Vergèze, near Nîmes, France (7)
20 Spicy Vietnamese sauce (4,3)
21 Basque name for Pamplona (5)
22 Kansas cowboy town associated with Doc Holliday and Dwight D Eisenhower (7)
24 Scottish river and market town on the Solway Firth (5)
26 One of a people, the Goidelic or Brythonic type (4)

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