Crossword for Tue, 4/Apr/2023

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Across
1: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

7: Abridged fibre project (3)

9: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

10: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

11: Small change comes back as recurring fluctuations (5)

12: Suggest I am a layer. (5)

13: Cover-ups of some Mexican heads reflected in more angry disorderly mobs (9)

14: Inactive planet? (5)

16: Cathy's new boat (5)

19: Oscillating crystal perhaps not so rare (9)

23: Throw mud at information (5)

24: In retrospect, sex provided relief for cravings (5)

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

26: Bug found in examination and in a full going-over (10,3)

28: Pen extracts articles from satay (3)

29: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)
Down
1: Arrived real pale, afraid of being shot? (6-3)

2: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

3: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)

4: One asking for quiet guide (7)

5: Helps jazz musicians after the first (7)

6: Misleading credit card rejected in the day before (7)

7: Unfinished riding gear for Indian town (7)

8: Count Tadeusz's first friend (5)

11: Start reducing salt? (3)

15: Charles' equine edges out clown (9)

17: Pieces of improperly lit tachometer returned with malice (7)

18: Atom bombs to begin spewing ketchup ingredients (7)

19: Denial referred to you and me and Al (7)

20: Island captured by lunatic exists for one turbulent decade (7)

21: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

22: Arguments about a couple of arcane taxes (7)

23: Beat outright a small French romantic (5)

27: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)




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