Crossword for Thu, 27/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Make milder ground sausage (7)

5: Moulded indicator of irrevocability (3-4)

9: First Fleet diarist-cum-swimmer (5)

10: Backing Brown University comeback, of course (9)

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

12: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

15: Tide recedes in love, in this version. (7)

16: A legendary string player, he joins us after turning professional (7)

19: Please start to sing at one San Francisco club (7)

20: A Baptist's head held by a priest in a river (7)

21: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

22: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)

23: Harry, malign not our national cake! (9)

27: Blow up, recalling utter piece of tripe (5)

28: Came up with an invitation at last for the Man in Blacks daughter (7)

29: Blabbermouth a little later on is noisy, venomous creature (7)

Down
1: Group of lawyers is attending sports events, so we hear (9)

2: Bright-sounding agenda touches on heavyweight legend (5,6)

3: 22 across, shot and others rustling his cattle (8)

4: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

5: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

6: Wander around inside territory (3)

7: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

8: Totally lacking a lofty plaything (3)

13: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

14: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

17: Secure below mountain climbing station (9)

18: Massacre gives Serb leader mirth (9)

23: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

24: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

25: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

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





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