Crossword for Wed, 1/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time (9)

6: Regarding Mutt, make a comeback? (5)

9: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

10: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

11: Love nest a real sign of being pretty easy (3-4)

12: Emily gets into the topic (5)

13: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

15: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

18: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

19: Lick up pal (3)

21: A month to live, perhaps (5)

23: 'Beat it, mister!' said con man (7)

25: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

27: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

28: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

29: Add pantry to make dude! (9)
Down
1: Got crazy, wearing feathers in colony of rodents (3,4)

2: A sample makes sense (5)

3: Cleaning off a lion bust (9)

4: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

5: Do cruises free verbal expression? (9)

6: Just conservative (5)

7: Authoritative feline vet, perhaps, spreading cure (9)

8: Beams in reverse alphabetical order (7)

14: Hard-wearing but onerous tax (5-4)

16: Gang has finished chasing one left alone (9)

17: See goat leap high for an insect (9)

18: Glass part of lock (7)

20: Mean a favourite defensive work (7)

22: City train bears the woman's name (5)

24: One in charge of carbon filament (5)

26: Have bananas now (3)




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