Crossword for Thu, 1/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Which creatures are found in factions? (7)

5: Knight-errant or young man in distress (7)

9: Bring ashore German notes with famous features (9)

10: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

11: Former name for joint audition (3)

12: Have bananas now (3)

13: First Lady, archetypical matriarch, and cowgirl finally talk candidly (5)

15: Dislikes laughter set-up (5)

17: Country encircling one's country (9)

19: Everlasting ringing of changes, outside inside, upside down (9)

20: Child can be heard getting out of bed at dawn. (3, 2)

22: Poverty-stricken, longing to rise up and get education (5)

23: I am reported to leer (3)

24: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

25: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

27: That may be reversed, but his son sits around pointlessly. (4,2,3)

28: Hero-worshipper dancing reel and jig (7)

29: Snubbed a vacant journalist (7)
Down
1: Caribbean tourists love to do this as dolphin cavorts (6-3)

2: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)

3: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

4: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

5: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

6: Fiction position (3)

7: Fatal crime may lead to damnation (6,3)

8: Relative clause ultimately adopted by the kind (5)

13: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

14: Trashy dime novel about American sex symbol who's not all there? (5,2,4)

16: The spider is a natural at disguise (9)

18: First class marks ripped off and sucked out(9)

21: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

24: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

26: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

27: Start reducing salt? (3)




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