Crossword for Wed, 3/May/2023

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Across
1: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

9: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

10: Questionable realtor robs preacher (4,7)

11: Attempt test (3)

12: Back in November, tilers had some measure of quantity (5)

13: Film relay got mixed up (5)

14: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

16: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

17: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

21: Couple in arduous dispute (3)

23: A Gore follows a Ryan (5)

24: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)

26: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

27: A favourite car of Seattle natives. (11)

28: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

29: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)
Down
1: Certain Asian set in bronze? Oh, sure (7)

2: Little Tom's pot (5)

3: Giant fish (5)

4: Eastern oxcart confounds blackmailer (7)

5: Covert watchers gawk, at last captivated by temptresses (7)

6: Person of wealth and distinction extremely beautiful to Her Majesty, a horse doper (7)

7: Archaeopterix? Maybe I err badly (5,4)

8: Ross bit nuts in restaurants (7)

15: Waterhouses partner slashes discounts (5,4)

17: Loud lot ran out at the head (7)

18: More stable, or slide around (7)

19: Abnormally mintier in the meantime (7)

20: Alien put in L.A. marriage (7)

22: Leggy swimmer shabbily cops out (7)

25: Redesigned color name tag (5)

26: Crow circles front of gate in Eastern fort (5)




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