Crossword for Tue, 7/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Author and actress receiving gold choker, originally (7)

5: Particular esteem (7)

9: Toff aimed to do himself proud. (11)

10: Finished holding second half of tour; it's lasted (7)

12: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

13: Plan to return with woman (3)

14: Complain about the horse (3)

15: Ever-practical, Mr. Vader keeps own little piggy (4-2-5)

17: Mend a split state (11)

20: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

22: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

23: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

24: Ray's about to remain undisturbed by reflections (7)

25: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

27: Computer screen is OK with time sped up (7)

28: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)
Down
1: Cretins destroyed tank (7)

2: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

3: Poet or old king on crest (9)

4: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

5: Again design rose float (7)

6: Down by one shot (5)

7: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

8: Smash top off strange fruit with speed (7)

11: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

16: Prove guess in outright delight (9)

17: Cleaning woman, embarrassed, is scarred by firing (7)

18: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

19: Prisoners drawing in some light colours (7)

21: Crosses through vocal factions (7)

23: Cook, sorta! (5)

26: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)




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