Crossword for Wed, 18/Jul/2018

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Across
1: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

9: Crazy man grabs NY theater award? Literally, just the opposite! (7)

10: Doris has residence in old West African republic (7)

11: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

13: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

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

16: Flower inducing forgetfulness in vaudeville theater (5)

17: War ultimately helps attacks (5)

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

19: Part of brutal one's claw (5)

20: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

22: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

23: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

26: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

28: Doctor East, half American, is a wishful thinker (7)

29: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)
Down
1: Lauds professor's initial salary increases (7)

2: Dating from birth in South African province (5)

3: Reportedly, guys take advantage of lists (5)

4: Exciting moment, actor as reviewer (11)

5: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

6: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

7: Poor man's right to make powerless (9)

8: Half-finished meal precedes my look back at sacred mountain (7)

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

15: Tom Sharpe source of imagery (9)

16: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

18: TV's Ellen, upset after last two bits edited out, broke contract (7)

21: Something that may move a hammer to engineer a murder (7)

24: A Muslim leader's energy efficiency ratio as a Muslim leader (5)

25: Attract fill-in worker by end of August (5)

27: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)




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