Crossword for Fri, 26/May/2023

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Across
1: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

7: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

9: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

10: Behind and down and out (3)

11: Custom in Communist radical uprising (2, 5)

12: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

13: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)

14: Underworld boss can be found among crazy sun-worshippers (7)

16: He enables a gambler (7)

18: Retorts about those causing corruption. (7)

19: Brigands put it in 16-across (7)

20: Compete with life in France (3)

21: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

23: Fit in cave after tea (7)

24: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

26: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

28: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

29: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)
Down
1: One applying pressure to eight mixed up in back rent? (9)

2: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

3: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

4: Articles by the uncentred Hazards - they usually indicate omissions (9)

5: Record true speed (5)

6: Uncommon fly on rare plant (5,4)

7: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

8: Game for drunkard (5)

13: Everyone in Italy's mad - so it's said - for ice cream (5-6)

15: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

16: A large bird or a large mammal that flies by Monica's sister (9)

17: Its very like a mess; rebel appears at fault (9)

20: Five Gaelic poems (5)

22: Navigate by terse directions (5)

25: You audibly ram partner (3)

27: Song is a gas (3)




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