Across
6 * I left Lydia a mess, to
become a proper woman (4)
8 * Alive surrounds
endlessly well read, like "beautiful bastard boy" (12)
9 * "S and M" contains
something gritty (4)
10 * Sirius and Betelgeuse
hit the jackpot! Who do they thank (that they're not as smart as they'd like to
think they are)? (10)
11 New York time zone holds
freight: snails (8)
13 North doric crumbles,
becomes Scandinavian (6)
16 * (With 28-Across) 1st
line of 1st track, with furniture discussing two holes in the ground
(4,4,4,3,7,5)
20 NASA to break up piano
piece (6)
23 Unusually edgy, if in
educating (8)
26 * Place you can let down
your hair...and sing with the quartet (10)
27 * Digging inside
"everything from this point on is real" (4)
28 * (See 16-Across)
29 * Iran goes ballistic; I
thought all of it would never stop (4)
Down
1 Alabama and
Washington: outside of "yes" forever (6)
2 Chewed up card in
canary's beak: tweet! (8)
3 Get JAL flustered; it
might keep you up at night (3,3)
4 Reportedly tap after
Farrah, but before Majors (6)
5 Upside-down nail
surrounded by Tripoli resident (6)
6 For example, a
correspondence (6)
7 Draw oddly; tuna,
e.g., is kind of small (8)
12 On fifty, why alone?
(4)
14 Sounds like we
give approval in Paris (3)
15 Pondered headless and
secondhand (4)
17 "I" disease? (8)
18 Western alien is
drenched (3)
19 Stallone film is
bright and shiny (8)
21 Reddish brown gold
combust (6)
22 Chad is here; is
reorganized CIA far? (6)
23 North, in principle,
becomes cultural (6)
24 Attack as false:
inside I'm pug-nosed (6)
