Crossword for Sun, 21/Apr/2024

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Across
1: Complain about the horse (3)

3: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

9: Sing gist of laudatory ode loudly (5)

11: It's initially recording automobiles speed, leading to charge (5,4)

12: Heard supporters flirt (5)

13: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

14: Making out and squealing after the top comes off? (5)

15: Raise vale. Tee off. (7)

18: Dogs running around streets (7)

19: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

20: Greenspan hugs former wife and the German control freak Haig (9)

24: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

25: Tossing and turning, I wondered what the comforter might be made of (9)

26: A little sister I called Heather (5)

28: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

29: Capture ten heading north (3)

Down
1: Anyway - no! (3)

2: Foolishly get pardon from patron (9)

4: Sahl joke: House's last two loan agreements (9)

5: Turned aside helpers (5)

6: Weird eastern lake (5)

7: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

8: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

10: Wild geese, disoriented without leaders, find shelter (3,4)

12: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

15: Deranged person ate tongue (9)

16: Affair? Despair soon dies, in steps. (7)

17: Acknowledging access (9)

21: Bush, senior (5)

22: Pointer is slender, lacking tip (5)

23: Road leading into dismal swamp (5)

27: Picture a dessert without topping (3)





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