Crossword for Sun, 30/Apr/2023

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Across
1: Lists scoundrels (5)

3: Strangely enough, cat's lease keeps getting bigger (9)

8: Midday change (5)

10: I catted around, in demand (7)

11: Child is to depart, finally (3)

12: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

14: Expose to heat in opening of red-hot kiln (5)

15: Bird dog bites boisterous lad (4,5)

18: Civil libertarian sends building uprights (4,5)

21: Perpendicular to 25-across? (5)

22: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

25: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

26: Most poignant lament is written in French (7)

27: Funny dame getting red (5)

28: Drainage area cleaned around 43% of terrain (9)

29: Cat, or what it does having lost its head (5)
Down
1: Overcome by disappointment from the rare bonk going awry (11)

2: Closely observes public transport viewing problem (9)

3: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

4: Will addition show 100 + 0 + 500 + 99 + 49? (7)

5: Near weightless? (5)

6: Nasal quality essentially irritates Vera (5)

7: Hear Native American appeal (3)

9: Computer screen is OK with time sped up (7)

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

16: Accurate journalist demanded payment (7)

17: Where one may play an instrument as a novice (9)

19: Extend a term of imprisonment (7)

20: Digs the reforms, having vision (7)

23: Headache starts to reveal a body part (5)

24: Theme eradicated partly by an eastern ruler (5)

26: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)




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