Crossword for Thu, 17/Aug/2023

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Across
1: One who gets up part of stairway (5)

4: Tot gets $1,000 for the piano! (4,5)

9: 'Elfin' featured in 'Complete Enya' (5)

10: Remote and barbarous Irish school (5,4)

11: I'll go geld guys - suprisingly he laughs raucously. (7, 6)

13: Adjust to initially having little juice (5)

16: Spruce up top Spanish sable producer (7)

18: Problems involving Rhode Island clergy (7)

20: Splay out and make tremble (5)

22: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

27: Recipient of drink describing gown with energy (9)

28: Certain to be restrained. (5)

29: Expelled for being extrovert? (6,3)

30: Fittingly, use following heart transplant (5)

Down
1: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

2: Magician's handy craft of little importance for the auditor (7)

3: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

4: Propensities for placing bets about leader of nags (5)

5: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

6: As one lacking a vice (5)

7: Al's framed by unexpectedly nasty examiner (7)

8: Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9)

12: One going to a higher court backing Father George, cardinal worker (9)

14: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

15: Mountain gorilla captivated Scientific American (9)

17: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

19: Tavern drink for the auditor, one with access to confidential information (7)

21: I left bear in pain it was the curdled milk! (7)

23: The idea -- a little meal filled you once (5)

24: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

25: I got by in Los Angeles or a North African state (5)

26: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)





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