Another of Phi’s cats has died. Her name is unclued at 16 down. The middle five rows are clued in no particular order; each clue is double, comprising a normal clue and a clue to a thematic answer consisting of wordplay only. The thematic answer is placed within the other, so that one letter of it crosses 16 down. In addition, two other answers (one a common coinage not in Chambers) are thematic, and clued by wordplay only.
ACROSS
1 Need to follow vehicle? Sweet, but not feasible (11, 2 words)
11 Life-saver hurried to secure swimmer, male (7)
12 Natural disaster? Friend runs off (5)
13 Musician lacking energy, needing time in charitable institution (9)
15 Ring composer not following exclamation of approval (7)
Clasps all African animals, barring one elephant initially spare
Row after compensation for serving dish dainty daughter dropped
Demand to receive book, colourful stuff? Wrong to receive a new unfinished story
Girl drew, capturing European military leader almost completely
Is part-time working producing collaborative attitude in France, I start to tease
23 Coward once taking cover round lake (7)
27 Note soldier receiving a lot of food in American island (9)
28 Features of birds’ bills? One’s evident in ducks (5)
29 Special constable taking magistrate to see what pavement artist will do (7)
30 Ramshackle verandah is setting for passion (11)
DOWN
1 Running medical tests on Scottish island male that’s brought in infectious (13)
2 Visionary mimicry, lacking little power (4)
3 Refuse to accept dish that’s slightly wavy (6)
4 Sacred syllable taking role of a line of the bible (6)
5 Grandma’s bread only half picked up? (4)
6 Lizard, slender, swallowing tailless game-bird (7)
7 Goldsmith’s vessel into prominence in bit of film (5)
8 Put down satisfactorily, first to last (4)
9 Waterfall occupying Scottish island horizon (7)
10 Ejected guard seen around a street, misbehaving (13)
14 Old-fashioned article fixed in block (5)
17 Runs from conflict, picking up documents assisting identification (5)
18 Idea log may be reshaped in rounded form (7)
19 Condemn as dishonest short book – unusually keen about a volume (7)
20 Egg-case on river mostly suggests insects (6)
21 Tree-trunk about to turn up under heap (6)
22 Marriage statement, look, prompting false notions (5)
24 Study former PM renouncing leadership? (4)
25 After end of course, I will abandon urge to engrave (4)
26 Shift old mass the day before (4)
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