Crossword for Sun, 2/May/2021

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Across
1: Leo, wealthy, wig awry, looking awfully old! (6,4,3)

9: Eastern oxcart confounds blackmailer (7)

10: Nerve cells that could make nose run (7)

11: An exceptionally attractive person may be met aboard (9)

13: Chris, the tennis player, is always on time (5)

14: To grin, I become disorderly (7)

15: Finger in pot, stirring (5)

18: Miserable raise follows poor grade (5)

19: Gold tooth, perhaps, in satellite? (7)

20: Edible root on grapevine equals 200 milligrams (5)

23: Worms grab venture capital (9)

25: Unfavourable publicity given to metrical composition (7)

26: Almost insane deviation around road works (7)

28: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

Down
1: Amazingly idle - why give up? (5)

2: Head off switchboard operator's request for rental (9)

3: Choose to take the top off (3)

4: Tepid on Germany's military advocate (9)

5: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

6: A quaintly pleasing accent (5)

7: Eat away at verse after initial hesitation (5)

8: The man's a trite, worn-out waiter (9)

12: Do tell! A puzzle found in a cornfield? (5)

14: Offering resistance, cattle run wild (9)

15: Plenty supporting nuclear process (9)

16: One hundred-odd bits of bombs in some projectiles initially (5)

17: Dirty Targa term is a four-letter word (9)

21: Run over Martian explorer (5)

22: Sleepy returned it, blushing (5)

23: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

24: In Germany, the monster returned from the east. (5)

27: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)





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