Crossword for Sat, 7/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

4: Share chain of hills with pear tree percher? (9)

9: Titan is finally cut short (5)

10: Terribly versatile family (9)

11: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

13: Child, bask by the sound (3)

14: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)

16: Duck's primary seducer! (5)

18: A key passage (5)

20: Energetically undid your toils (9)

22: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)

24: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

27: Run a piece peculiarly devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasures (9)

28: Love our following morning (5)

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

31: Irene's new name (5)
Down
1: Create an impression on an envelope? (5)

2: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

3: Horse fly's, um, retreating (7)

4: Exercise is right for a one-time actor (9)

5: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

6: Go over the same ground? (7)

7: Plunges about in State's evidence (5)

8: English scenes reproduced for 'Nature' (7)

12: No French islands for the other Dr. Crane (5)

15: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

17: Like powerful uncle in Indian state? (5)

18: Climactic age opal tossed (7)

19: United States taken in by tax he prepared to squander (7)

21: Too old for insurance protection without a cap (7)

23: Object of thinking without pen (5)

25: Note found in prison is swell (5)

26: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

29: Have bananas now (3)




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