Crossword for Wed, 21/Mar/2018

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Across
1: Impatient dope confused designated hour (9,4)

9: Fixed penalty for 9 (7)

10: Tide recedes in love, in this version. (7)

11: A month to live, perhaps (5)

12: Wooded hillock forming part of Arthur's territory (5)

13: Nothing we have to pay (3)

14: Restrained Republican newspaper commentary (5)

16: He made Peter and the Wolf provoke, if disturbed (9)

18: Its neat for a vessel to have this appearance (9)

20: Treacherous stray fleas (5)

21: Ran into a section of the time-table (3)

22: Publication for children (5)

24: Arrests and starts having a little torture session (5)

27: Wild geese, disoriented without leaders, find shelter (3,4)

28: Men going mad in far east blackout (7)

29: Rap wave using scab? (6-7)

Down
1: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

2: Splay out and make tremble (5)

3: Pub undoes gross implications (9)

4: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

5: Miserable raise follows poor grade (5)

6: A simpleton, folksy Ugandan leader is followed by an Occupational Therapist (5)

7: Real idiot's rewritten opinion piece (9)

8: Control staff work collectively (9)

14: He appeared to cross-breed elms. (9)

15: Don't indicate so much that's futile (9)

17: A slight possibility of actor Jackie taking one's place in office (3,6)

19: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

22: Colder here in Paris emergency room (5)

23: Shiny flat-bottomed boats heading north (5)

25: Appeal, as I kneel, revealing special light in my eyes? (5)

26: Abstract art is just one step.(5)





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