Not The Saturday Prize Puzzle

NTSPP - 271 by Chalicea
More Than One Could Chew
Eleven solutions have the same three-letter word at the beginning, in the middle or at the end. Those three letters are not clued in the wordplay.
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  •  1  Small marsh bird; aquatic flier (7)

  •  5  Macho in newly-shaped punky hairstyle (7)

  •  9  Little songbirds; choice items (7)

  • 10 Underdone Welsh delicacy? (7)

  • 11 Participant in snow sport, maybe riskiest when it's sadly lacking (5)

  • 12 He and I strangely occupied (9)

  • 13 In trouble, gang reuse lubricating pump (9)

  • 15 Formerly concealed content (4)

  • 18 At ninety degrees starts experiencing abnormally scorching temperatures (4)

  • 19 Resents cunning debuggers (9)

  • 22 Boston's restaurant for light meals; proletariat bizarrely rejecting it! (9, 2 words)

  • 24 Light door lock, primarily located at church (5)

  • 26 Data unit, roughly two pounds (7)

  • 27 Celebrity's devotees blow cool air on foremost of clueless, loud, uninformed buffs (7, 2 words)

  • 28 Exceptionally rare judge (7)

  • 29 Publicly present one-time partner with word used as friendly greeting (7)

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  •  1  Uses teeth to cut into shells of eggs (5)

  •  2  Shabby condition of tasteless clothes in heartless sales after closure of store (9)

  •  3  Subtly resisted lady in charge of newspaper (8)

  •  4  Sent wandering on local meadow, home-making for 1ac and 13dn (7)

  •  5  Spoil the lower jaw - what the saints did? (7, 2 words)

  •  6  Not far off having flavour of medicinal plants, including touch of estragon (6)

  •  7  Copper measure (length of an arm) (5)

  •  8  Sends note about eminence (9)

  • 13 Bird's a large kebab we're told! (9, 2 words)

  • 14 Put to some purpose profit derived from property (3)

  • 16 Decapitated chevalier with weapon in place of evening entertainment (9)

  • 17 Renounced midday meal, packed one, prepared in advance in Perth (8, 2 words)

  • 19 First stage of spacecraft with launching-pad principally replacing old support mechanism (7)

  • 20 Blunder about Irish mammal (7)

  • 21 Tip off drearily dull timid person (6)

  • 23 Spontaneous remark about bald one? (2-3)

  • 25 Sound expressing surprise custom (5)

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