Across
| 1 | Was in charge of Baptist church's style of dressing (5) |
| 4 | Pack one's blade carelessly in retreat (9) |
| 9 | Shrewdly tactful X-ray snapshot captures old drunk (7) |
| 10 | Thus far, father goes after attorney with drink (4,3) |
| 11 | Frilly border surrounding St. Peter's impressive entrance, note, and cellar (4,5) |
| 12 | Single virgin, while sexy, heartless and fresh (5) |
| 13 | Eponymous Greek character takes in unendingly bleak picture (7) |
| 16 | Top story: Telephone company eventually starting to improve average performance (5) |
| 18 | Boy isn't running backwards near a vertex (5) |
| 20 | Finds another purpose for keeping grainy blue picture puzzles (7) |
| 23 | Close off heavy molded wall footing (5) |
| 24 | Build up true belief about perfume, for the most part (9) |
| 26 | Delightful aliens agilely dancing around club (7) |
| 27 | Tract of nearby pasture left out (7) |
| 28 | Kennedy's holding snare with first of distinctly odd four-footed creatures (9) |
| 29 | Extract Western portion of secret nickel deposit underground (5) |
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Down
| 1 | Spread like cheap wine, once (6) |
| 2 | Explicit lines in lively tunes – there's nothing to it? (4,3) |
| 3 | In vile joint, a couple of turkeys ask for money (3,2) |
| 4 | Again stage “Time Out”, young reporter's entertaining retrospective for Floridian NFLer (9) |
| 5 | National prestige of troupe mentioned (5) |
| 6 | Supports friends riding wild steed, obviously (9) |
| 7 | Meet nightly behind silly dope's place (7) |
| 8 | Per Rev. Spooner, taste England's sausage and pretend to sing (3-5) |
| 14 | Actresses Lucille, Victoria and Moran with a dancer (9) |
| 15 | Elongated shaded areas around wing covered ribs? (9) |
| 17 | Nervous to the extreme, one rattled tenor cut siesta short (8) |
| 19 | You'll make clear where de body is? (7) |
| 21 | Embattled financial institution to back urban baseball diamond (7) |
| 22 | Dingy, second-rate western hat (6) |
| 24 | Cut to graphic section of a long poem (5) |
| 25 | Cover one relative of a European raccoon (5) |
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