Crossword for Sun, 10/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Confederate poet returned with rather less sparkle (7)

5: Midstream babe learning Hawaiian custom (7)

9: A small piece of land is rented (5)

10: See chess piece: king suffering hard loss (9)

12: Novel deviance in the movie? (5,2,6)

14: Get rid of Bush (5)

16: Coming unglued at paper battlement (7)

18: More pronounced rasp (7)

20: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

23: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

25: Balls thrown at gophers (9)

27: Lovely to have an hour inside for recess (5)

28: Mad? O, yes! Mad dog! (7)

29: Examiner for each drug addict (7)
Down
1: Dieter's first hint: hurl mostly for reducing (9)

2: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

3: 'However' and 'Believe' singer is someone who handles cuts (7)

4: Jewish leader second in the shower (5)

6: More spacious island accepted by tenant (7)

7: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

8: Take on popular rascal (5)

11: Mountaineers drawing female inside hot springs (7)

13: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

15: Noisy tunnel in Queens or The Bronx, for example (7)

17: Dry debate about stuffed animal (5,4)

19: Have a shot about elderly misfortune (7)

21: Publicity about Bohr dissolutely led to drink.(7)

22: Remove bombast from French painter? (5)

24: On return, for example, put back costume (3-2)

26: Direct object (3)




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