Harpy’s Weekend Crossword for May 8, 2022

Across

1. Coming celebration heard as having one challenging it (7) 

5. Vain rat causing Covid deviation? (7)

9. Man-made or plastic notes (9)
10. Idiot is nothing during time before noon (5)
11. I eat stem, making something with most substance (8)
12. Promise shown by piano student at border (6)
14. Initially, take any pot in our cassava array to make its extract (7)
16. Rural Post Office converted to salon (7)   
18. Understand Portuguese coin is expendable at first (7)     
20. Riser to organise those in uprising (7)
22. George firstly in ship to loiter (6) 
23. Raised to repair minor planet (8)
26. Church in area producing porcelain (5)
27. Height of delight about English verse (9)
28. Change course to desert, crossing line (7)
29. Discharge magistrate covering Leguan Island (7)

 

Down

1. School mothers involved in change (4,5)
2. Spirit with which graduate at dance (5)
3. Rig vote and cause feeling of insecurity (7)
4. Places sand around sceneries (10)
5. Save allowance to bring in meat (4)
6. Walker, one going on and on (7)
7. O dear! More trouble for airport (9)
8. Trace some incriminating evidence (5)
13. Casual clothes unusual in war posters (10)
15. One seeking legal redress for simple quarrel (9)
17. Eric needs new abode (9) 
19. Repeat arrangement of tea rite (7)
21. Clothing best of the lot (7)
22. Copper returning to break cover?  That’s clear (5)
24. Express a  view in shop in Everton (5)
25. Study over time causes depression (4)