Crossword for Tue, 3/Oct/2023

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Across
2: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

9: I am in football country for bankruptcy (9)

10: Notes spent in Germany (5)

11: Perfect conviction ends trial (5)

12: Feel sick from crack? (3)

13: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

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

17: Ned Lunig, thrown inside, openly seen to be crapulous (13)

22: Publication for children (5)

23: You audibly ram partner (3)

24: Romero races around (5)

25: Gas makes one put on weight (5)

28: One country or another entertains Jolson (9)

29: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)
Down
1: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

2: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

3: Paul wears shirt the wrong way to provide shoulder covering (7)

4: Incomprehensible English is the sign of a professional (7)

5: Heading from the Dakotas to the Little Big Horn, general is waylaid by a person who can look into the future, and backs out (7)

6: Thumb Drum? (3)

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

8: Follow in broken suede shoes (5)

13: Frost to cover the cake (3)

14: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)

16: Boundary requires a frenetic reorganization (9)

18: The time before the first woman (3)

19: A drop of the hard stuff? (7)

20: Sir Reed shot an American novelist (7)

21: Author of stories about moles could be clearer (2,5)

22: The Irish are working for small clubs (5)

26: Crew member is one in operating room (3)

27: One may be a very long time (3)




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