Crossword for Sat, 25/Jun/2022

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Across
1: Diamonds for newlywed, coating grand frail spanner (3-6)

6: Youre filming some Return of the Long Term Prisoner (5)

9: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

10: Prove guess in outright delight (9)

13: Essentially, what boy is wearing (3,2)

14: Maintenance with Jones family perhaps (7,2)

16: Five Gaelic poems (5)

17: Army lieutenant offers options for leaders in a distant state (5)

18: In a pickle about where one should apply the acne cream (2,3,4)

20: Globe's automobile award (5)

22: Eddy's mother hugging Slater wildly (9)

24: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

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

28: Curtailed clothing allowance possibly a revolution factor (4,5)
Down
2: A heron regrets losing its wings (5)

3: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

4: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

5: Aliens set off (3)

6: Express joy in slaughter (5)

7: File abbreviated manuscript before trip promoting graphic series (9)

8: Reunite scattered entourage (7)

9: Adjust to initially having little juice (5)

11: Lawyer keeps it short (5)

12: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

15: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

16: Wives' strange ideas (5)

17: Devastation when head is cut off before a party - it may be eaten as first course (7)

19: Multiplied by inaccurate items (5)

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

23: Sit on marsupials and rats tail (5)

25: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

26: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)




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