Crossword for Tue, 27/Jun/2017

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Across
1: Bury with arms and legs but no head (5)

4: See chess piece: king suffering hard loss (9)

9: Poison with spite (5)

10: Said I, 'So be yourself' (suppressing, 'be defiant!') (7)

11: Bury in the empty sepulcher, eventually (5)

13: Aliens' organization trailed by very important rebel (9)

15: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

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

22: You say the apartment you let someone use is having a problem with gas? (9)

23: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

24: Artists workshop E. Lear bowled over with it (7)

26: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

28: Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time (9)

29: Tears as leading character in romance dies (5)
Down
1: Attacked with words to violate one's hearing (9)

2: Throw out faulty nib (3)

3: Undesirable Mark is worn out, holding me back (7)

4: Tiresome platitude from dim bore (7)

5: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

6: Watch, say (7)

7: Okay shot ripped tears in butt (6-5)

8: Oddly corny spot in tomb (5)

12: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

14: Call for help oddly stops (3)

16: Young horses mistakenly resign early without hesitation (9)

18: August moon crosses over bits of mica and corundum (7)

19: Fiction position (3)

20: A little off, but ultimately scored (7)

21: Uncovered some letters written back in Sumerian epoch (4-3)

22: Mrs Schmidt's penny is fake (5)

25: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

27: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)




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