Crossword for Thu, 30/May/2024

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Across
1: Bugging two items of personal adornment (9)

6: Get rid of Bush (5)

9: User brought back radio part (wrecked sound) to return to use (9)

10: Perfect conviction ends trial (5)

11: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

13: Poet or old king on crest (9)

15: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

16: Odd bits of Niacin and Sprite (5)

19: Greg is stone-faced, in sum? (9)

21: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

25: Farm branches, in part (5)

27: I need half a month before becoming a saint (9)

28: Fruit found in Carmel only (5)

29: 'True men' is false (9)

Down
1: Romantic poet is close to Reagan (5)

2: Old pies thrown in sack (7)

3: Enter names - register only lists beginners (5)

4: Roman date and time that is in Latin (2,3)

5: Get bunger out for renowned German printer (9)

6: Clip of Southern Conservative is very revealing at first (7)

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

8: Bird dog devouring bad lad (4,5)

12: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

13: Study a French instrument - it's a puzzle (9)

14: Prig had ma conceal midriff (9)

17: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

18: Hun paid out for French prince (7)

20: 'Inane' is not the same as 'inane' (7)

22: Unease from irritating gnats (5)

23: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

24: Oddballs go right to Kansas (5)

26: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)





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