Crossword for Tue, 24/Jan/2023

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Across
1: PIcture lines as in visions. (7)

4: Bury 'im for the meantime (7)

9: Lawman inside fires back, hits female (7)

11: Reportedly, guys take advantage of lists (5)

12: Censured someone who's gentle as a Kennedy (9)

13: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

14: Bigoted, ideological extremes in preamble to bill are misguided (9)

16: Balance a plate of fish? (5)

18: Belonging to you, is getting to me, Herb (5)

20: Bystanders are ready to see Queens (9)

22: Hellish center for immigration? (5)

24: A cinerama restored examples of a country's quirks (9)

26: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

27: Distraught minister loses son in transition time (7)

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

29: Peewee keeping in love encounter (3,4)
Down
2: Like powerful uncle in Indian state? (5)

3: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

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

5: Fools with packs outside emergency room (7)

6: Tears as leading character in romance dies (5)

7: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

8: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

10: Police questioning a retiring toon under the table (13)

15: Non-clerical song (3)

17: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

19: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

21: Little bitty lines on a letter from Athens (7)

23: Defame how I live in 16-across local (5)

25: Pitcher, lunatic, not married (5)




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