Crossword for Fri, 12/Apr/2024

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

3: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

9: . . . or working with one group of stars (5)

10: Sponges kisses after initiation (7)

11: Wise bird is after Sunday clothes for part of a service (5,4)

13: Again, make fast about dead heat (5)

14: Coach abdicated direction to players (5,4)

17: It comes back to the levy (5)

18: Long for a mass of reporters (5)

19: Pluto is cold and tired out; its a disgrace (9)

20: Excellent bowls for cooking furry critters (5)

22: A cinerama restored examples of a country's quirks (9)

25: Otherwise angered by a fencers call (2,5)

27: Add what's up for Ibsen character (5)

28: Western retreat satisfactory, accepted by canoeists and surfers? (3,8)

29: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

Down
1: Smells renovated doors (5)

2: Person believing - except for Satanic evil (5)

3: Wild thing sure is greediest (9)

4: Plan to return with woman (3)

5: Giant fish (5)

6: Void three stones (5)

7: Young lady back at Kennedy gave erroneous information (9)

8: Agent accepts mere garbage for contract (9)

12: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

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

15: Ace practised a lot by female golfer in a state of decline (2,1,3,3)

16: Partially affect a steak's flavor (5)

17: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

21: A rugs fashionable and rather sweet (5)

22: Pointer: 'Start off thin' (5)

23: Italian god after precious metal sound (5)

24: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

26: I am reported to leer (3)





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