Sea bass communicate cryptically in a language created out of music.
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Across
- Sink or swim? Second person with both legs amputated loses lead and falls back
- Sibling captures "Good day" with a common signature (2 wds)
- Heads of Masonry Church spin a yarn or saying
- What a princess wears in the East, except on March 2nd or 3rd
- Shelled grenade follows end of life to resting place
- It leads to Discord channels regularly ending from contradiction
- The music center got 4 out of 5 stars
- Mostly inebriated bellhop (not yours) is left holding the bag
- Headless nut is lost in translation
- When mystery hunt is not removed from a cup?
- Your dodo is standing with its weight evenly distributed across both legs
- Amble around your dotted double bar
- A greeting one might hear going west from Barcelona: "My, yes!"
- I heard the Ah-Boong shop is half bad
- It's imperative to never cover a piece of furniture in conversation
- Reeling at just deserts
- Yes, the gallows finish two factions of the military
- Change of heart from exhausted person
- Dishevelled sire looks after fourth minor (mood)
- Reshape hair in May or November
- Lower one step of the honorary Otello, e.g.
- Leaders of House of Representatives now finally decide to take loans from the bank
- Reorder nothing, then redo order
- Chisel the start of London Bridge
- The first time ever that approval is rescinded, for example
- A period of alternating romance and heresy
Down
- Crap? No, lose the head and it's valuable
- Motown genre and its pioneer spirit, I hear, will help you decipher this puzzle
- After a tonic, fiancé got tipsy
- Hypothesis on shortage of Chinese rice, reportedly, is the same on both sides
- A branch of science rooted in politics or lack of reason
- With a particular KEY, BABA IS NOT WIN
- System for transporting letters to lose the cover of a book full of translations
- Contra dance move sounds... for a start, savory, for example
- The dominant strategy rewards leaders without patience
- Give back curtailed credit
- Put off cleaning edges after empty shell
- Flesh starting to fall off with remorse
- You might find this before a table, or at the end of one?
- An American ally is revolutionary, neutral tomorrow
- One might study a language here if consecutively ascending
- Reporting two sunbeams and one that follows; so it is an autumn month
- Bad spelling of foul mood
- A comet orbited back at the end of the year
- You might get this when the temperature drops down two fifths from the sun
- We take care of the world for you
- How unfortunate, your inconvenience may repeat in the end
- Enter or exit north
- Perpetual, ominous destruction of LA