Crossword for Sun, 26/Dec/2021

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Across
2: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

5: Send back gangster's gun to get ID (3)

6: Birds in the wilderness (5)

8: Bride's outfit - a sort of shirt by Jean-Jacques? (9)

10: Twice French mounted plain bovines (5)

11: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

12: Particular esteem (7)
Down
1: Place to clean up bit of trash in club meeting area (7)

2: Therefore, finish off this bit of work (3)

3: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

4: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

7: Avoid duty like a self-satisfied leg-puller (7)

9: Do as I say in short retreat (5)

11: Clothilda is carrying a parcel (3)




Solution (Reversed)
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