Crossword for Wed, 31/May/2023

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Across
1: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

3: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

9: The stagecoach industry (9)

10: Pick a wrong angle (5)

11: Tender command (3)

12: Shake three times with essence of magnesia (7)

14: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

15: The basis of coffee remainders (7)

17: Things get loose when there's a deficiency in the directions. (7)

19: Walking upright, P. Abide turned left (7)

21: Half-open tomb put in a shrouded form (7)

23: Neither's partner participated in an orchestra (3)

24: Congressman Grant's adversary gobbles steak bone, getting stuffed (7)

25: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

26: Bring out French nobleman with ease (5)

27: Whatever happens, speed is unimportant (2,3,4)

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

29: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)
Down
1: Crazy bald guy in Beetle (7)

2: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

3: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

4: Farm animals put on islands (7)

5: Fiction position (3)

6: Helga excels coming back with a two under par (5)

7: Making key choice in sport (3,6)

8: Silver cap for crewless name (7)

13: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

16: Timely introduction of purifier into terribly poor air (9)

18: Model unusually creepy hat (9)

19: Prohibit use of milliner's material for automobile part (3,4)

20: Lick up pal (3)

21: After the last bit of moonshine y'all be gettin' back inside, see? (7)

22: Singer Mel, not heartless, is suffering (7)

24: Lodge heard discharge (5)

25: Historic mission -- part of uprising Mexico maladministered (5)

27: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)




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