Crossword for Thu, 3/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

3: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

9: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

10: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

11: Top card? Excellent! (3)

12: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)

13: Putting your foot in it may incite Royal intervention (7)

15: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

17: Treacherous stray fleas (5)

18: Rushes lots of material around the rear (7)

20: Fade over a tape, when edited (9)

24: Number One in facetiousness (3)

25: Rebel action disrupted festival (11)

26: Spring restored sap (3)

27: Thats sensible; has the eagle perhaps landed? (4-2-5)

28: Five kills one. (3)
Down
1: Limit each inn's brawling (7)

2: Spread Dianne's pearls around (9)

3: Mandarin tangled net in rage (9)

4: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

5: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)

6: Religious man rumoured to have been taken in by a whopper such as this. (5)

7: Pay for mashed tater (5)

8: Color red surrounds letters on a Cardinal's cap for all-out player (7)

14: Backward South American city captured by Bill (9)

15: Note old fashioned opening with 2.54 cm bird (9)

16: Relaxed back at vicarage with a NZ channel (6,3)

17: Swindled the coat off one's back (7)

19: Incinerate 'em in box (7)

21: Incandescent silver base (5)

22: Path of planet - or particle (5)

23: American capital supplied plant (5)




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