Crossword for Sat, 11/Apr/2020

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Across
1: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

3: Restaurant employees opposed to stuffing fish (7)

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

9: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

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

11: When a variable is replaced by one number, the highest figure becomes the lowest (7)

12: The day ends with an unpleasant ancestral line (7)

13: Told about Trotsky hoarding cash (3,2,2)

14: Scarf free tacos (5)

17: Turns violin over to get pointers? (5)

18: Plant sincerity (7)

19: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)

23: Ape, bird, teal, buck (7)

25: I'll be stuffed if I'll deal with him!. (11)

26: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

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

28: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

29: I shall be sick! (3)
Down
1: Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5)

2: Stabbed, bark 'A Kennedy' (9)

3: Moldering, moldering panhandler? (4,5)

4: Undersized ones gripping coin, for starters (9)

5: Drunk band I conducted (5)

6: Firm rear end (5)

7: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

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

13: Managed to let Zara make a glory hole (9)

14: 22 across, shot and others rustling his cattle (8)

15: The bandleader channels energy.(9)

16: Conductor taking opera to Northern Ireland twice (9)

20: Roman light and gold found in Egyptian town. (5)

21: Rooted in regressive muddleheaded isolation (5)

22: Quietly instigate a witch-hunt (5)

24: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)




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