Crossword for Sat, 1/May/2021

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Across
1: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

3: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

7: Dowdiest rear in Mexican party, almost (9)

9: Almost all choose fresh salmon (5)

11: Dark, scary thing (5)

13: Cutthroat congressman's back in lifeless Ohio primary (9)

15: Padre's sensibly covering attire (5)

16: Left carrying what in Barcelona was inlaid with wood (9)

17: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

20: Stayed only a moment at lewd Western with titillating beginning? Just the opposite! (5)

21: Just desserts for Alpine tumble? (9)

22: Part of stair is erect (5)

23: Enter names - register only lists beginners (5)

24: Breaking promise, strip back nightie (9)

27: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

28: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)
Down
1: Inactive side (3)

2: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

3: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

4: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

5: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

6: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

8: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

10: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

11: Turning back, Sid went in to astonish naturalists (7)

12: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

14: Senior citizen losing 500 toddlers at sea (7)

18: Haley's book provides moral support (5)

19: Supremely clever stories, overlaid with humor (7)

23: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

25: Plan to return with woman (3)

26: Bloody bored inside (3)




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