Crossword for Sun, 23/Apr/2023

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Across
1: Awful bed lace causes fiasco (7)

5: Serial entanglement with single Middle Easterner (7)

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

10: Lily Tomlin's character: teen siren runaway (9)

11: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

13: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

16: A little sports car, let to harassed Southern belle (8,5)

19: Grave study: code-breaking? (13)

22: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

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

27: Portable burner showing punch on Rocky Peak church (9)

29: Had dressed formally without a hat (5)

30: Spotted like a cheesecake? (7)

31: Reds die, but revolutionary lived (7)

Down
1: Put on University of Texas ring (5)

2: Nosy one, rear in air (9)

3: The cow may do this in the local veterinary yard (5)

4: Reportedly, I cry and watch (7)

5: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

6: Red Square leaders picking up wild stories with electronic gear (9)

7: She literally describes high society (5)

8: Anger that is constraining response (3)

12: Choose to take the top off (3)

14: Speak slowly, with upward lilt at the beginning (5)

15: Bad call involving entrance to our neighborhood (5)

17: Top cop gets into caper with skill from way down under (9)

18: Nasty sea bandit did not drink. (9)

20: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

21: Hide the real solution (7)

23: Settle on shattered torso (5)

25: Excellent bowls for cooking furry critters (5)

26: Stopped and looked after blowing top (5)

27: Throw out faulty nib (3)

28: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)





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