Crossword for Thu, 18/May/2023

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Across
1: Go over and bring harness-racing horse back (5)

4: Spider, e.g., caught a foremost kite's sail (9)

9: What this puzzle is (3)

10: A good friend to union, radical is not doing it for money (7)

11: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

12: One may be a very long time (3)

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

14: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

15: Obscure time to start work in a happy place (5,4)

19: The Lilliputians' citizen army? (9)

20: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

22: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

26: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

27: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

28: Pulling in fish? Right - pulling in fish (7)

29: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

30: Local bounder flooded field, say, producing fruit (9)

31: Shine audio, $40? (5)
Down
1: Beams in reverse alphabetical order (7)

2: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

3: For Summits, speak out of order (5)

4: Hopped up and won easily in sudden spurt (6-3)

5: Perfect conviction ends trial (5)

6: Scandinavian wearing no buckles (9)

7: I hear you require a massage. (5)

8: Quickly assemble dry pail (7)

15: Weight thrown around by tragic men (9)

16: Curse the mother country? (9)

17: We hear former wife thrilled Richard, an odd person (9)

18: Putting your foot in it may incite Royal intervention (7)

21: The French inheritance given up by a former French colony (7)

23: The Commander went to the communist and ripped his heart out. (5)

24: I dispense playing cards in a perfect manner (5)

25: Caesars standard golf score? (5)




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