Crossword for Thu, 23/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

5: Transgression if turning end in Marseille (5)

9: Heavy metal group X (4)

10: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

11: Metallic element forming excellent electrical connection (4,5)

13: Starts to prepare every kind of European tea (5)

14: Schoolchildren made to come back on Saturday make mistakes (4-3)

16: Jimmy Garner's cops (7)

18: Warrior and Republican in fantastic legend (7)

19: Popular book impounded by British police after revolution (7)

21: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

23: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)

25: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

27: Later round without an opponent (3)

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

29: Appears that fine car is elevated (5,2)
Down
1: Fathers admitting a couple of atrocious spoofs (7)

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

3: Bobbed beneath in playful attempt to drown journalist. (6, 5)

4: Publicity about one expectant father, perhaps (5)

5: and 1-down Adherents defer if mistaken for birds (9,7)

6: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

7: Tuck's in a bad way, unable to move. (5)

8: About fifty-one complaints - they're thought to be true (7)

12: Reportedly pull down more money at work (5)

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

15: Choosing to sing about vote (9)

17: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

18: Good girls in spectacles (7)

20: Tipsy couple's getting intimate (5, 2)

22: How Nero holds one in control (5)

24: Go in with singer Karen, forgetting fish (5)

26: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

27: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)




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