Crossword for Tue, 19/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Seed seen when garage is empty (7)

4: State currently popular with goddess (7)

8: Round LA complex having meeting points? (7)

10: Weapon company accommodating listener (7)

11: No one told sister (3)

12: Plan to return with woman (3)

13: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

14: Kitty's way of saying loudly, 'I hurt'? (5)

15: If forced, see idle TV broadcast (9)

18: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

19: No right to secret desire (5)

20: Light bagel on skewer (7)

23: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

24: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

26: Empty pail beneath sack (7)

27: Have a shot about elderly misfortune (7)

28: Like a good actor (e.g. Redford playing 13 across?) (7)

29: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)
Down
1: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

2: Extra-radical worker getting tan (9)

3: Determination: we're not finished detaining sick P.O.W. (9)

4: Disbelieving customer found in fetid cell in turmoil. (7,6)

5: Guard enthralled by desperately urgent sad song (5)

6: Gather together for a church service. (5)

7: Praised muck in supplement (7)

9: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

16: Hesitate to leave when harboring evil (9)

17: Number observed outside event (9)

18: Sailor to criticise abundant 19-across source (7)

21: Climp up on horse on high ground (5)

22: Stranger's radical party rejected (5)

25: City official spread rumor, initially (5)




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