Crossword for Wed, 17/May/2023

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Across
1: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

3: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

5: Eat late, taking in a floozie's new business (5-2)

8: I am reported to leer (3)

9: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

11: Started frustrating us in real unwillingness to accept (7)

12: Desired rotten insults (7)

13: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)

14: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

15: Toss a hammer into a nuclear accelerator! (4,7)

21: Terrier shows how to stray (3)

22: Siblings who have orderly habits? (7)

23: Yes, MBAs worked with a diplomatic staff (7)

24: Discounting losing one's sense of humour? (8,3)

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

27: Warrior and Republican in fantastic legend (7)

28: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

29: No one told sister (3)

Down
1: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

2: Bound her, as subject, to a government official (7)

3: Eat or drink after the dollar improves (5,2)

4: Layperson to straighten us clear (7)

5: Curiously mad sort of celebrity (7)

6: Log support for unknown Housing Director (7)

7: Dolly led runt astray (7)

10: The French spirits lifted by light poet (3,6)

11: Broadcast share in genuine show trial (9)

16: Sob wildly and preserve secret (7)

17: Boiled the seed furiously (7)

18: Elsa ran frantically for store (7)

19: Dance originally held on top of wooden structures (7)

20: Rejections concern enthusiasts (7)

21: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

26: Throw out faulty nib (3)





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