Crossword for Sun, 13/Feb/2022

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Across
1: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

4: Every other starlit fish starting search for little percussion instruments (9)

9: To accept covert mission, in brief, is an opening for chaos (7)

10: The ultimate objective is not to achieve the goal. (2, 5, 1, 3)

11: Wanderer features in ones best adage (7)

13: Apparent place in the tall grass (7)

15: Sadly curtail urge for land cultivation (11)

18: Backblock not all there (3)

19: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

20: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

21: True one hiding along the way (2,5)

22: Popular book impounded by British police after revolution (7)

25: Dog finally completes one volume, with excellent handwriting (7)

26: An Italian port - New Orleans (7)

28: Prominent performer with Peru's wild climbing rodents (9)

29: Genteel Egyptian penning mournful poem (5)
Down
1: Frost over mid-January during epic exploit (3,2)

2: Take Chair in university (3)

3: Gallows gear so one swings (5)

4: Attempt test (3)

5: Disturbed intruder, pet disturbed. (11)

6: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

7: Far out, man, to rile someone who tells cats what to do (9)

8: Hear Native American appeal (3)

12: Hostile warning: one man has captured the queen (11)

14: Ruse duck (5)

15: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

16: It's initially recording automobiles speed, leading to charge (5,4)

17: Tom Cruise playing an outfitter (9)

23: Scrimmage as Confederate general introduces himself to Tarzan? (5)

24: PAL: part of acronym (5)

25: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)

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

27: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)




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