Crossword for Thu, 19/Dec/2019

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Across
1: Definitely the recital is arranged (7)

6: Duck down as filler for your caps... (5)

9: Bugs going after quiet gags (7)

10: On the way back, I had to keep calm and concentrate (7)

12: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

14: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

15: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

17: Orchestra I'm reorganizing for certain conductor (11)

20: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

22: On your feet! (8,5)

24: Vie with prisoner and nurse (7)

25: Loud noise in vocal number (7)

27: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)

28: A tendency to bungle and cry, 'Near upset!' (7)

Down
1: Refuse graduate upgraded mark (7)

2: Half disapprove of old king (3)

3: Rider in Confederacy's last two campaigns, primarily by inclination (7)

4: Discounting all odds, teen assured to succeed (5)

5: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

7: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

8: The olde bull's last moo's for daffodils or buttercups, e.g. (7)

11: Waters return to vessel. (5)

13: Sound practical perception is a normal feeling (11)

16: Welsh resort - and no dull resort (9)

17: Liqueur rumored to heal foot-and-mouth disease among pigs? (7)

18: English novelist is in future a delight (5)

19: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

21: Herb levels the French yard (7)

23: Plate through the nose for lasso (5)

26: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)





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