Crossword for Thu, 5/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Show off Mark's Mazda Miata, for one (6,3)

6: There is no commoner old coin (5)

9: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

10: Behind and down and out (3)

11: Thinks about frolicking like she's a sitcom actress (6,7)

14: Eights had to race again, we hear, concerning fish spawn. (2, 3)

15: Reading or writhing in river (3,6)

16: Android's gold love-apple close to Krypton (9)

19: Fairs with examples of sex positions (5)

22: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

24: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)

25: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

28: English lead getting into the pants of guys (5)

29: The man's a trite, worn-out waiter (9)
Down
1: Fish for captain (7)

2: Mistakenly reboot C: in spooky month (7)

3: Start reducing salt? (3)

4: Bishop has support from this criminal (5)

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

6: Nits are possibly more unpleasant (7)

7: Very young cat I lost in an ancient city (7)

8: Man sees bananas in a bunch (2,5)

12: Nothing we have to pay (3)

13: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

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

16: Was pertinent Associated Press page misrepresented? (7)

17: Dogged pamphlet for the auditor (7)

18: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

19: I am reported to leer (3)

20: I'd party wildly after hitting this? (3,4)

21: Meeting to deploy the marines (7)

23: Lion's leader publicizes dens (5)

26: Residue has scattered (3)

27: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)




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