Crossword for Sun, 5/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Atom bombs to begin spewing ketchup ingredients (7)

5: A Baptist's head held by a priest in a river (7)

9: Birds in the wilderness (5)

10: Bird and man going different ways (9)

11: Witticism provided theme (5)

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

13: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

15: Plan to return with woman (3)

16: Froglike seat fungus (9)

19: Puts down carbon copy of scenery (9)

20: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

21: Outspoken one-time Houston gridiron pro and mathematician (5)

24: Aliens set off (3)

26: Confuse cast (5)

27: Grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)

28: Kingdom very mountainous at first (5)

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

30: Uncompromising joke about Ms. Hayworth (7)
Down
1: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

2: The Lilliputians' citizen army? (9)

3: Check out flyer for insects after the cricket (4-5)

4: Notice District Governor in the cyperaceous plant? (5)

5: A democratic leadership, time after time, is a benefit (9)

6: Shower time, Bonzo? Spring, I hear (5)

7: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

8: Perform part of play (3)

14: Boob implant cups: sad hoax in line with 15-down (8,3)

16: Partly indicates progress of undergraduate (2,1,6)

17: Streetcar crashed into litterbug, perhaps? (9)

18: Attentive old bachelor, one who waits on others (9)

22: Depart from low overhang (5)

23: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

25: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

27: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)




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