Crossword for Thu, 2/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

3: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

9: Turn four in vessel (5)

10: First Lady, archetypical matriarch, and cowgirl finally talk candidly (5)

11: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

12: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

13: Tear down and show a lack of respect for Mickey (9)

15: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

18: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

21: Exploits, in Time, founder and glow cold (9)

23: Links to some 7-down (5)

25: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

26: Vigorous beer (5)

27: Lasso a large animal, making first off for north (5)

28: No hefty role at sea for ship-launcher (5,2,4)

29: Revolves around a star. (3)
Down
1: Prize pate spread (9)

2: Dance, Father Morrison? (5)

3: and 2 Curses! Dons the parodists (4,3,7,2)

4: Was sick girl set up? (5)

5: Overhear them speak of the serpent's purpose. (9)

6: To leaf I turn, becoming leafy (7)

7: All the same, I lanced it, painfully (9)

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

14: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)

16: Finish up with discontinued language? (6,3)

17: Number observed with contest entry (9)

19: Game cooked in ovens (7)

20: Declare leniency even heartless to be this! (7)

21: Principal on top of leafy tree (5)

22: Consumer stirred tea in emergency room (5)

24: A clown circled at a distance (5)




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