DG's "Daily" Mini #53

Very good, I really liked the misleading surface read for 4D.

**Here we go again**, solvers, and thanks for trying your hand at my silly nonsense once more.  I try to remain apolitical, but aficionados of W B Yeats may detect his influence at work in some elements of 2D.

Here's the wash-up as I see it.  Comments and suggestions are gratefully accepted as I strive to do better (but it seems I still can't help my occasional Araucarian urges getting the better of me.)

ACROSS.  1A. ||"president" = ABE + "democrat" = D.|| 3A.  ||"doctor" = DR + "back at sea" = AFT.|| 7A. ||removal of "right" = R from "consequently" = ERGO.||  8A. ||removal of "power" = P from "specialist" = EXPERT.|| 9A. ||hidden in "absURDUndertaking".||

DOWN. 1D. ||"commercial" = AD + outer letters of "zone" = ZE.|| 2D. ||insertion of first letters of "GEorgia" = GE into "Trump wounded here" = EAR.|| 4D. ||"romeo" = R + "lover, no longer" = EX.|| 5D. ||First letters of "Favour Of Reform".||  6D. ||homophone of "two two".||

Playful stuff, as ever, thanks for the grid. I really liked 7A, 8A, 9A, 4D, and 6D. A few nits: the definition for 1A seems off (wouldn't it just be [sleeping]?) and I'm on the fence about [primaries] as a way to indicate the first two letters of Georgia. (I think, given the surface, I lean toward yes.) I do think I'd change the order of the two parts, though, unless you mean that the primaries are full of intensity (as opposed to Trump).

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