Crossword for Tue, 7/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Bad call involving entrance to our neighborhood (5)

4: Ditch a worker is cutting (9)

9: Flipper's conclusion (5)

10: Overhear them speak of the serpent's purpose. (9)

11: Retro gents in exotic parks (5)

12: Posed in glossy fabric (5)

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

15: Hunk from Japan or a Micronesian broad (9)

17: Suggestions for obvious singles (9)

19: Mount Ahab, say (5)

21: Blunder into tall African mammal, with no infrared (5)

23: Gallows gear so one swings (5)

24: By no means the cleverest, anyway (9)

26: Oak's first seen on the first of May with its leaves out (5)

27: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)

28: Dictator's inventory includes scuptures with missing limbs (5)
Down
2: Prisoner's diplomacy at meeting. (7)

3: Missed hoax set up to trap Sunday drunk outside saloon entrance (4,5,2)

4: Working up here? Not in the next episode (9)

5: First Lady's vocal projections (5)

6: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

7: A friend starting to make word from letters (7)

8: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

13: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

16: To pry into turn-around for aircraft support (9)

18: Where Handel wrote short measure on organ (7)

20: More nutty British can promenade by the sea (7)

22: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)

25: Thumb Drum? (3)




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