Crossword for Fri, 29/Mar/2024

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Across
1: Gee, side dish doesn't include company's observation about gas? (6,3)

5: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)

8: Record true speed (5)

9: Projects finally house guys in camps (9)

11: No one told sister (3)

12: Is this small cockatoo a fool? (5)

13: Give in and offer up (5)

14: Everything, including meat, in stew is nutritious (9)

16: Ms. Messing to remove underwear? (5)

18: Child can be heard getting out of bed at dawn. (3, 2)

20: Lined salt shaker made ready for use (9)

22: Reflective review of lead horse (5)

23: Imported food injected with nitrogen (5)

24: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

25: Winner against what French first resisted otherwise (9)

26: Gallows gear so one swings (5)

28: Snoopy, no? Yes, in retrospect (5)

29: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)
Down
1: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

2: Desire tale filled with energy (5)

3: Record unusually green ornamental centrepiece (7)

4: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

5: Mad? O, yes! Mad dog! (7)

6: Unspoken corruption - born venal! (3-6)

7: Lightened up, taking part in strip-tease dance (5)

10: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)

11: No spot for weather forecast before snow approaches (5)

15: Simpletons at home with no money (9)

17: Assistants' crackpot ideas (5)

19: Lies for each twelve men (7)

21: Crazy man grabs NY theater award? Literally, just the opposite! (7)

22: Tippecanoe is home to a nut (5)

24: Pacino or Crowe? Insider returns to sing like Der Bingle (5)

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




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