Crossword for Sat, 11/May/2024

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Across
1: Improvise

5: Decrease, as a load

9: Planet, e.g.

10: Wimbledon Cup sport

11: Jock

13: One with a spread

14: Leave without paying

15: Joe Namath, once

16: Mercury, for one

17: Impudent

18: Silent sayso

19: Island near Molokai

21: Eventful trip

23: American and Swiss

24: Seem to be gold, perhaps

25: Very attractive

27: Inventor's protections

28: Balance sheet positive

Down
1: Hooded jackets

2: Freedom, briefly

3: Madame of The Met

4: Funeral hymn

5: Injured by tearing

6: Pun reaction, perhaps

7: Tests for quality

8: 7 or 11, in craps

12: Entourage member, sometimes

15: Scrap metal sites

16: Thousands of years

17: Temporary

20: Discernment

22: Lustrous fabric

23: Shrink in fear

26: Word at the start of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'





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