Crossword for Wed, 15/Mar/2023

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Across
1: A garden ornament makes men go mad (5)

5: A fool had peas cooked (7)

9: Note vehicle in picture puzzle (5)

10: Difficult situation with drug in back of pantihose (5,4)

11: Strangely, some limbs suffer from blood clots. (9)

13: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

15: Grant loud colour (3)

16: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

19: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

20: In all, just a little peak. (3)

21: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

23: Rita Mears breaks wind near a plane (9)

25: Number observed outside event (9)

26: Adore inconstant nymph (5)

28: Salt sees entrance taking in everyone (7)

29: Vapour trapped in paste amethyst (5)
Down
1: Watering devices found in run-down orange sheds (6, 5)

2: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

3: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

4: Result of sleeping in currently fashionable paintings (4,5)

5: Scholars in Sunday School a long time (5)

6: Applies root of turnips (4,2,3)

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

8: Period email feature (3)

12: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

14: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

16: New more whingeing talk of lung disease (9)

17: Deranged person ate tongue (9)

18: Publication for children (5)

22: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

23: Alien live around Glacial Ridge? (5)

24: Dear benders (5)

25: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

27: The time before the first woman (3)




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