Crossword for Tue, 4/Jun/2024

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Across
2: Nude redhead receiving backward glance is one serving drinks (9)

7: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

9: Great conqueror or ragtime bandleader (9)

10: Excessively sentimental dunderhead in the river (5)

11: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

13: Gloomy pizza maker taking day off around middle of January (7)

14: A language one may read about (9)

16: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)

17: Priestess betrays Sen. Kefauver (5)

19: Green coat for Italian composer and Spanish painter (9)

21: Bottomless sea, stormy sea - waters' surface rises and falls (7)

22: Free time around quiet stream (7)

24: Sit on marsupials and rats tail (5)

25: Open present yonder (4,5)

28: Backblock not all there (3)

29: Repack? Foe repacks, but gives nothing away. (9)
Down
1: King John's last to find out (5)

2: Later round without an opponent (3)

3: Irately blasted the way things are (7)

4: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

5: through old player? (9)

6: Keeps turning nastier (7)

7: Beware of these they show the funny side of the month! (4,2,5)

8: Avoids seeds, pits, nuts (9)

12: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

14: West abandoned mortals without a spot of confusion (9)

15: Grant authority to gaucho, finally, packing whip for farm animals (9)

18: Eat late, taking in a floozie's new business (5-2)

20: Resistance to change is smart; it's going back in time (7)

23: Character from Greece or the borders of Transylvania (5)

26: In fear of wheat head (3)

27: The time before the first woman (3)




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