Crossword for Wed, 10/Feb/2021

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Across
1: Hope and Crosby going up and down (7)

4: Sausages from a Greek island (7)

8: Support a deranged original (11)

10: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

11: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

13: As one lacking a vice (5)

15: Slight urge at night (5)

16: Tossing and turning, I wondered what the comforter might be made of (9)

17: Renowned architect leaving island for long jog (5)

18: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

19: Don't obstruct slippery eel packer (4,5)

20: Concrete well cover (5)

22: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

23: I am reported to leer (3)

24: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

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

28: Having red nose, turned back (7)

29: He wrote about life in the woods. You read mostly inside (7)

Down
2: Throw out faulty nib (3)

3: First popular promise - extreme appeal (9)

4: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

5: Still drunk, sings in a light, rhythmic way (5)

6: 7-down relic? (6,5)

7: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

8: European sage knew a novel novel (9,4)

9: Sounds like I hit it into orbit (3,6)

12: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

14: Suspicious nag, roused, is apt to make trouble (9)

17: Icon got in by mistake under an assumed name (9)

21: Delay yield (5)

26: Anger that is constraining response (3)

27: Odds of niece being born (3)





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