Crossword for Mon, 1/Feb/2021

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Across
1: Marvelous egg primarily lined with bits of extremely rare gems (7)

5: Compel compliance with printers measure for cable ends (7)

9: Buddy goes red in the face, or reddish (5)

10: Quiet Bedouin gets half Catholic, the better to reflect heavenly things. (9)

11: Friday wraps up with pals (7)

13: Denial referred to you and me and Al (7)

15: Cad mad about Dutch port (9)

16: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)

18: Writing mate loses head and becomes confused about punishment (5)

19: Established to trick company editor (9)

22: Turning back, Sid went in to astonish naturalists (7)

24: Surrounded by asses, he tries again (7)

25: Bell tower providing temporary accommodation by a river (9)

27: Full house often enough to secure this young pet (5)

28: One American tree growing wild that's very plain (7)

29: Formic neutralises hydrochloric. (7)
Down
2: It isnt good for a man whos batting to get a hundred in the game (9)

3: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)

4: Sex and dope are wrong, it's revealed (7)

5: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

6: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

7: Small courses, no fine trimmings. (5)

8: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

9: Point back to itself. (5)

12: Ridicules unnecessary bobtail (7)

14: Im backing into meat from Belgium! (7)

17: Like Nadia or Olga, my acting's affected (9)

18: Criticise good service with a cure-all (7)

19: I may be found in a sumptuous house in central Spain (7)

20: After time, press brought back Central American leader (7)

21: Gloomy semi-dull firmament (5)

23: Beat outright a small French romantic (5)

26: Ripen mangoes evenly (3)

27: Implement box for young cat (3)




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