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ACROSS

1 Python guy shows skimpy outfit (5)

4 Was sociable on the way, given guidance (9)

9 Sketch fish flip-flopping downwind (7)

10 Daily call to acquire coffee dispenser (7)

11 Authenticate extremely absorbing Kipling poem (6)

12 It’s easy shifting around staff’s first opinion writer (8)

14 Depot describes an initially improved maintenance of cleanliness (10)

15 As carelessly hewn (4)

18 Discharge rifle (4)

20 Snack bar formerly held by rowdy scions (10)

23 Quotation he recalled about glutton with criminal charge (8)

24 Aisle C for the audience, maybe (3,3)

26 Forgive housing choice leading northeast (7)

27 Warriors endlessly spoke about unfinished wall painting (7)

28 Find one’s own work exterior to South Carolina finished (9)

29 Crows not opening kilns (5)

DOWN

1 Puts on casual shirts hung outside jeans (9)

2 Round garish light outside Irish club (3-4)

3 In passing, Raffi titled some scribblings (8)

4 Cold poetic form disguised message (4)

5 A lot is written about Idaho regarding money-making ability (5,5)

6 Unicorn’s head covered by inverted label on chewy candy (6)

7 Rather wordy, large poster having arisen in backed-up hard disk (7)

8 Ran up close to artist Vermeer’s birthplace (5)

13 Max nearly meets with her in gym surroundings (10)

16 Repeatedly confused, insure convents (9)

17 Juggle limes & three balls, my sunshine (1,4,3)

19 Pennies split by 51 customers (7)

21 Supplements new inspectors, ignoring cop (7)

22 Brazilian city contributed to a half-forgotten song in a melodic style (6)

23 Looking up bones broken by large Castilian hero (2,3)

25 A shrink, ghastly looking (4)