The initials preceding each clue represent its author, and do not form part of the clue! Scroll down for more information.

Across:
   1,7dn. JdS - She sang of 4 down and played banjo with endless zeal (4 4)
   4. NB - Tree from the Antarctic perhaps shelters a little penguin (6)
  10. SU - A crime, 9 by a country (7)
  11. SZ - Expected more Tunisians to hold back (2 5)
  12. SA - Internalising, 7: "I perform for nothing" (3)
  13. AM - Cash in your chips and depart for Rivera, perhaps (5)
  14. SA - Cure for E habit found here (5)
  15. SU - Daughter acknowledges UPS partner (5)
  16. JdS - An undertaking to tie apron around spare tyre (9)
  18,9dn. SA - Scram! This is 16 26-29 II! (9 8)
  20. see 15 down
  21. STH - Decent grinder changed hands (5)
  23. JdS - Make Orlando glow (5)
  25. RVB - Waver, withraw, leave, feeling poorly (3)
  27. JH - Backwards monster surrounds graduate with blockade (7)
  28. MM - Penned bird sheltering another head to toe (7)
  29. RVB - Cook carries a little cinnamon for sponsor (6)
  30. VRW - Plane flies ... I devour sandwiches! (4)
Down:
   2. TM - Force the outcome and prove disastrously in hock to the king (9)
   3. SU - Reckless Diana’s taking drug with nymphs (7)
   4. RVB - Overheard bit of harmony (5)
   5,24. MG - Prof swears iron used for captives (9 2 3)
   6. NB - A song about origins of quarterstaffs, Uzis, and tanks (7)
   7. see 1 across
   8. STH - Catch part of game show (4)
   9. see 18 across
  15,20ac. TM - 16 26-29 II: I'd take part in crashing Mercedes into bar (8 5)
  16. MM - Nobly mock comical TV series (2 2 5)
  17. JdS - I started, I tainted, I restored (9)
  19. TM - Glasshouses also rebuilt alongside estuary (7)
  20. JH - Ashes of ruined seminar (7)
  22. TM - Takes openers: run out before stumps (4)
  24. see 5
  26. STH - Stroke a cat with iron deficiency (4)

All clues composed by Clue-For-The-Day participants at the Facebook Cryptic Crossword Society page, during the CFTD contest of December 22, 2022.

The initials represent the following setters (FB names):

And here are all the other clues that were submitted in the game:

Across:
1,7dn.	SA - Joe's bonanza? No, son - rebelling Joe Hill's singer (4,4)
4.	SU - Common seedless tree (6)
10.	SU - Crime, a bombing by a country (7)
11.	NB - Routine preparation before birth (2,5)
11.	SA - Ruin toe, unfortunately, before being born (2,5)
11.	SA - Erudition I'd not displayed before delivery (2,5)
12.	NB - Hurry and return pizza lacking zucchinni and artichoke toppings (3)
12.	SU - Rest in peace Romeo! Eliminated by unknown for nothing… (3)
13.	SA - Dragon ran, no? Ran around, i.e. like someone on football pitch (5)
14.	RVB - (nfc): Swimmer drops model back for therapy (5)
15.	SA - Built-up snow drift started on the hills (5)
15.	TM - Chances to move the ball when necklines of dresses are cropped for daring top (5)
15.	RVB - Snowdon's son lost, wandering in the hills (5)
15.	STH - Turf over and around edges of Wimbledon drains (5)
21.	SA - A driver for Ukrainian forces - not English, honest! (5)
21.	BR - Being ethical not the new normal unfortunately (5)
23.	TM - Orlando's flower? (5)
27.	SA - Stop or go on amber? Confusing! (7)
29.	SA - Re: support for the Queen? (6)
30.	RVB - Team regularly swindled (4)
Down:
2.	SA - Concerning prisoner of war, Queen's subject (9)
3.	TM - Spirits with water aid sane reconciliation (7)
4.	SA - Hope a cessation produces calm (5)
5,24	SA - POW, POW, POW ... Fully beaten they were, sometimes (9 2 3)
5,24	AM - Hogan’s Heroes perhaps bent wires for aprons (9 2 3)
6	SU - Question occupying Reverend: Quit dysfunctional car pools? (7)
8	TM - Look into sometimes having to come together (4)
16.	SA - Re: fantastic second-rate hair where I live (2,2,5)
16.	TM - Head position demand from executioner? (2,2,5)
19.	RVB - A sailor at sea in sunrooms (7)
20. 	MM - Refuse the Reverend’s masses of rocks (7)
20. 	MM - The Reverend, being not well-spoken, yells: “Me checks in ashes!” (7)
26-29ac	TM - Second level gambler? (10)

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