Crossword for Mon, 30/Oct/2023

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Across
1: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

6: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

8: Flower festival is pointless (5)

9: Poem about social worker left with grace (9)

10: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

13: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)

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

17: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

18: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

19: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

21: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

22: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

25: Something lacking in brief season (9)

27: Publication for children (5)

28: Pass mould (3)

29: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)
Down
1: Betraying no emotion when Greek god has first expired (7)

2: An idea to throw out ring away from home (3,2)

3: Before time like an aristocrat? (5)

4: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

5: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

6: Painter mentioned hidden burial (9)

7: Pen opening regularly, bearing volatile, flammable liquid (7)

11: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

12: Same as Edward, partly comforted (5)

15: 16-down Redundant RE question, like derr (2,3,4,1,8)

16: Bizarre exits are... (5)

18: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

20: Curled back at last course (7)

23: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

24: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

26: Freshen the atmosphere (3)




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