Crossword for Sun, 29/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Hear Native American appeal (3)

5: Swarms all over fashionable gatherings (7)

9: Busted on a journey destined for the Orient (9)

10: Jewish leader second in the shower (5)

11: Flashlight lent, ran sporadically (7)

12: People who take salad in their mouths (7)

13: The most artless nearly tack on undershirt (7)

16: Play overtime...'What have we here?' (7)

18: Threw out long bit of dried up meat (7)

19: Heart of delicatessen, certainly, is meat (7)

20: Explanation for Bill (7)

22: Name of girl getting praise in secret service (7)

25: It might reside in monument! (5)

26: Father to give Bronx cheer to first of international photographers (9)

27: Slimeball guards existence in French refuge (7)

28: Former name for joint audition (3)
Down
1: Metal train ridden by holy woman (5)

2: Renewed lease isn't required (9)

3: Top communicator qualified to produce telegram (5)

4: Slight urge at night (5)

5: Discourage trendy princess's affectation (9)

6: Asks loaded questions about coffee pot supplies (9)

7: Fur seal frolicking around entrance to bay (5)

8: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

13: San Francisco athlete captures wild boar, an obvious choice (2-7)

14: Manipulated Cleo, queen with a silver tongue (9)

15: Difficult situation with drug in back of pantihose (5,4)

17: How might thirteen yearn to meditate? (4,5)

21: Heavenly visitor to arrive on time (5)

22: Bobby-Ray slashed coconut meat (5)

23: Large vessel is berthed in China or Taiwan (5)

24: A bad back not yet eliminated (5)




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