Crossword for Fri, 9/Jul/2021

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

4: Kills wild cries for incidentals (9)

9: Dog finally completes one volume, with excellent handwriting (7)

10: He enables a gambler (7)

11: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

12: Polite fellow, but a slippery character (7)

14: Number One in facetiousness (3)

15: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

18: Support a deranged original (11)

19: Road without a pole (4)

21: Get zany, swimming in exotic river (7)

23: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

25: Take peach heart to make sweet tart (7)

27: A letter from Greece - about a sort of April flower (7)

28: Dotty rides around corrals with someone who passes out (9)

29: Oilwell fireman Red's commercial run (5)
Down
1: Regarding Mutt, make a comeback? (5)

2: Grow envious with seabird sounding environmental (4,5)

3: Leaving firm when dating (5,6)

4: Canoe lost in sea (5)

5: Felt strangely about unfinished age-old recorder (9)

6: Grant loud colour (3)

7: Decimal, in many cases (5)

8: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

13: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

14: Faced lift-off when stricken (9)

16: Bushes put the kibosh on Reno's deal (9)

17: The spider is a natural at disguise (9)

20: Approaches first of nine pieces of corn (5)

22: Upon reflection, move a houseplant, one requiring lots of liquid? (5)

24: Grow, taking head of iceberg to show again (5)

26: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)




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