SunWeb13 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 To imitate a pen, not for the news here (10)
6 Taken with rhu, you may be hooked (4)
10 When you have this, that’s when coffee is fine (2,3)
11 There’s fifty one in the roof-top just in case (9)
12 I heard this mad regal play one of his own (8)
13 Made a mistake around about not in the black (5)
15 No rest and relaxation in this code, sounds like it will test your mettle (7)
17 The French fleet in a booklet (7)
19 Very demanding former first gentleman (7)
21 I ‘m in a tangle, trying to make dessert (7)
22 My pink paper has been stolen (5)
24 Not short for crossing the river in this place (8)
27 These gypsies have a ball on the north side (9)
28 One horn or two, this beast (5)
29 Every ache considered on its own (4)
30 Take tea with fifty in New York after ten years, corruptly (10)

DOWN
1 This country has lost nothing to come across to the west of here (4)
2 Poor you, had a trip and landed in a scented mixture (3-6)
3 Backward is no bad, on the shore (5)
4 I beg for some rope and 1051 (7)
5 One is larger and taller than my six sisters in the northwest (7)
7 A no gin gambler can play his cards much better after losing a thousand (5)
8 It is wide and hard here, though long off the rails in Dublin (10)
9 In spite of expectations, double fifty at the end of a long time at the end of a vessel (5,3)
14 Satisfactory, to take 7 down without its tail (10)
16 Sounds like I am obvious, as we play past the whistle (8)
18 Set fire to the old city with a US soldier and a saint, I know my rites (9)
20 The sewers work on it, more ditches than stitches (7)
21 Let there be no obstacles to this Hindu, and no wider in hydrangeas (7)
23 In principle and it sounds like you have the hiccups (5)
25 Fake this gofer (5)
26 Hundreds in this lad, and not a corpse (4)

Full Solution

ACROSS

1 copywriter.
COPY + WRITER [here = in the Irish Times, not for the news = advertising]
6 barb.
rhu+ BARB
10 no tea.
NO + TEA
11 portfolio.
LI + ROOF+TOP [anagram]
12 folksong.
madrigal = FOLKSONG
13 erred.
Not in the black= in the red, ER + RE + D
15 corrode.
C + O + RR + ODE
17 leaflet.
LA + FLEET [anagram]
19 exigent.
EX + I + GENT
21 gelatin.
I + TANGLE [anagram]
22 theft.
THE + F[inancial] T[imes]
24 Longford.
LONG + FORD
27 Bohemians.
BOHEMIANS
28 rhino.
I + HORN [anagram]
29 each.
ACHE [anagram]
30 decadently.
DECADE + N + [T+ L] + Y


DOWN

1 CONG.
CONG + [ O ] deletion
2 pot-pourri.
POOR + U + TRIP [anagram]
3 wrack.
[BA] + CKWAR + [D] deletion and anagram
4 implore.
ROPE + MLI [Roman numeral 1051] anagram
5 Errigal.
I + LARGER [anagram]
7 abler.
[ G ] + A + [M ] + BLER double deletion
8 Broadstone.
BROAD + STONE
9 after all.
AFT + ERA + LL
14 acceptable.
ACCEPT + ABLE
16 overtime.
OVERT + IME
18 liturgist.
LIT + UR + GI + ST
20 tillage.
TILLAGE
21 Ganesha.
H + [YDR]+ ANGEAS [deletion and anagram]
23 ethic.
ET [and] + HIC
25 forge.

26 body.
BO + D + Y

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