Crossword for Thu, 12/Aug/2021

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Across
1: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

6: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

8: Opening event in cruise: Iran art display (7-6)

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

11: Step right in cement mixture (9)

12: Feeling threatened, suggested concealing identity (11)

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

15: Thumb Drum? (3)

16: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

20: Open present yonder (4,5)

21: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

22: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

23: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

24: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)
Down
2: The portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel (7)

3: Threatened males got perfect scores (7)

4: Closest home receives attention (7)

5: Delay American writer in South Dakota (7)

6: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

7: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

8: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

9: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

13: Try to trap me, a pro anyway, wont last forever! (9)

16: Bachelorettes wear indecent clothing to induce one to take a vow (5, 2)

17: Allow feathers to disappoint. (3, 4)

18: Feminine articles put in case (7)

19: Opponents of Vietnamese lost a TV war (7)

21: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)




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