Crossword for Fri, 17/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Ore crusher uses sticker for 1/10 cent (5-4)

6: Certain plants contributing to hectic activity (5)

8: Advice on clues to be anagrammed (7)

9: Be supplied with wings, over and above (7)

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

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

16: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

17: Oilwell fireman Red's commercial run (5)

19: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

20: Equips for attacks (4)

21: Enter names - register only lists beginners (5)

22: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

23: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

25: Direct object (3)

26: Name successor in speech? (7)

28: Send inmates free gin (7)

29: Express joy in slaughter (5)

30: Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9)
Down
1: Support sign for subordinates (11)

2: Finish suddenly, like an oboe? (1, 4, 2, 3, 3)

3: Reverend Spooner's congregants join together in fast (9)

4: I shall be sick! (3)

5: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

6: A group performing with energy 'The Untouchables' e.g. (5)

7: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

10: Devil and saint share presentation (13)

13: Hype song that is plain (7)

14: Edward, holding a bird, came behind (7)

15: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

18: Some doctors oust head of Johnson and Johnson? (9)

24: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

26: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

27: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

28: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)




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