Crossword for Wed, 10/May/2023

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Across
1: A supporter starting to mock President Garfield's middle name (5)

5: We would embrace tightly in marriage (7)

9: It's expedient to engage in habit-forming activity (9)

10: Check German car ahead of time (5)

12: One-time philosophical teaching turned him to classics (13)

15: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

18: Increase a nutmeg's nuttiness? (7)

19: Well-brewed litre of this is a symbol of Irish pride. (7)

20: Interrupted by yells of pain, Dr. Edward napped (7)

21: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

24: Prepare for onset of torrential downpour (5)

25: Other way round!, deputy angrily avers (4,5)

28: Birth of Wilder sibling (7)

29: Improve me back end (5)
Down
1: Direct object (3)

2: Disreputable chaps killed fowl. (5)

3: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

4: Gershwin comes back on train with tortured spirit (5)

5: Resist having platform (9)

6: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

7: Elderly sundials. (3, 6)

8: Implement box for young cat (3)

11: Damage the object, Mr. Gore, having to do with marriage (7)

13: With Starr finally out, Hyde's plan simply loses traction in a way (11)

14: Arena performer's damage involving time and trouble (7)

16: Frank comes to fall practice a lot (9)

17: Terribly versatile family (9)

22: Acquire something enclosed by muslin curtain (5)

23: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

24: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

26: I've lost struggle (3)

27: Help found in Adelaide. (3)




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