Crossword for Tue, 11/Aug/2020

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Across
1: Sees unusual section (7)

4: Freedom of action in desert (7)

8: He's not joking, it's completely lawless. (2, 3)

9: Essentially presents allegory conducive to isolation (9)

10: Segregate horses around the object of a hunt (6,3)

12: Zantac's first in things to buy for composer (5)

15: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

17: Steel is ruined, nearly destroyed (5)

18: Creep closer to girl, fight cold back (5)

19: Name assumed to be no dupe's my disguise (9)

20: Courses finish with Decline and Fall (5)

22: Incorrectly read pitch for a song (4,5)

24: Poked with a knife, one cat finally howled outside (9)

27: Threefold test (5)

28: First of all, you undercooked my meat; I enjoy roast more flavorful (7)

29: Anticipate warning cry about bearing (7)
Down
1: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

2: Opera Asians (5)

3: Authoritative feline vet, perhaps, spreading cure (9)

4: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

5: March follower off with pair left behind (5)

6: Small piece of fish (3)

7: Odds of niece being born (3)

9: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

11: God, assuming olden right, creates yellow weed (9)

13: Slight urge at night (5)

14: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

16: Call girl sting nabs head of Moral Majority (5)

17: Telltale churning up dirt on CIA (9)

21: Alternative Lennon music? Its ho-hum (5)

23: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

24: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

25: Root for mounting might (3)

26: Startled, grabs sailor (3)




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