Crossword for Sun, 30/Jul/2023

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Across
2: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

6: Continuously flows from the right to enter a competitive group on board (7)

9: Instrument component removed from turbo car in accident (7)

11: Drudge from Los Angeles, one who makes you yawn (7)

12: Burdened young man with couple of encumbrances (5)

13: Sounds like I hit it into orbit (3,6)

14: It might reside in monument! (5)

16: German painter in a southern state (5)

17: Famous spy taking leave with odd instrument (5,4)

18: Disgusting donut turned a greenish color (5)

19: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)

21: Nag male, starting with pain in the neck (7)

22: Finally, Julius Erving's helping (7)

23: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)
Down
1: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

2: California bone head describes Bermuda Triangle region (9)

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

4: On your feet! (8,5)

5: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

7: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

8: Rap wave using scab? (6-7)

10: All for naught, perhaps; not many upset (7)

13: See why a convertible is nonsense (7)

15: Spread of the ocean encompassing fish (9)

18: How Nero holds one in control (5)

20: Wise men get introduction to conjuring tricks (5)




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