Gussalufz IXL 2023-2

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Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ Viresh Ratnakar, IXL

Across
1Show how to get treated as VIPs (4,3)
5Feast to prohibit one's pursuit: no seconds! (7)
9Charge implicates royal partners—they may provoke reactions (9)
10Quietly sit around endlessly at a mall (5)
11Sweet rolled and wrapped in oily rag, usually (6)
12Naked desi wearing tattered lungi's not a good look (8)
14Infection fighter's life-story in brief, on board blighted Titanic (10)
15Fine clamped by judge ("ecstasy, crack") (4)
18Chances of spots where bhang can be found in Bahrain, eg.? (4)
19Thick-skinned creatures, dark at heart, angry, evil, and huge (10)
21Has not been engaged regularly, they feel (8)
23Free time for peacekeepers to explore (6)
26Oil producer: "Oil production's extremely valuable" (5)
27Rank of, say, America, trailing a part of the world, abruptly (9)
28Piece posted—about girl setter (7)
29Sharpen pen's bluntness (7)

Down
1Wife strikes, ends shooting (5)
2Bound (o boy!) to get sued, losing it (9)
3Cabinet reworked border after limitless struggle (8)
4Outstanding ring! Got married? (4)
5Instrument you mentioned is in broken sitar's bag (4,6)
6Reflecting after family's fifth member pops out, plan family with this protective cover (6)
7Various agencies providing employment (5)
8Moves country using only a few words, according to Spooner (9)
13Matches astonishingly rotten man, swipes (disgusted, essentially) (10)
14Unusual loo—am extraordinarily enthralled by waste outlet (9)
16A couple of lightweights—boring, plain, clueless (9)
17After mixing gin, try one drop—Y/N? (8)
20A former lover cried out for extension (6)
22Fine, good stuff (5)
24Passionate, revolutionary youth is brutal every now and then (5)
25Cunning principal (4)