Crossword for Mon, 14/Dec/2020

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Across
1: A key passage (5)

4: One may be a very long time (3)

6: Notice District Governor in the cyperaceous plant? (5)

9: Tending in Southern California to fight straw man? (9)

10: Great review at debut of Naughty Bird (5)

11: Excitedly rerun tape for thrill (9)

13: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

15: Ever-practical, Mr. Vader keeps own little piggy (4-2-5)

16: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

17: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

19: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

23: City official spread rumor, initially (5)

24: Proof of intoxication (9)

26: Consider sound possibility (5)

27: Roll dirt and clay round tip of thumb with three fingers (9)

29: Original North American time precedes 'America Latina' (5)

30: Former name for joint audition (3)

31: Boy returning the Spanish server (5)

Down
1: Lost sail heading for eastern passage (5)

2: Box put on line for bird (7)

3: You audibly ram partner (3)

4: One true turning on the way (2,5)

5: Yew chopped up inside close to January (3,4)

6: Tag his shirt in order to discover if he's only a little bent. (11)

7: Evolve from crude Velo predator (7)

8: Age of neo-catastrophe? (3)

12: Bend in Pennsylvania court case related to revered founder (11)

14: Body English for a billiards shot (5)

15: Material featured in 'Sudden Impact' (5)

18: I'd party wildly after hitting this? (3,4)

20: Bill is after Chuck to discipline (7)

21: Incorporated transportation firm and bank (7)

22: Cut out ad about folding table (7)

25: The cow may do this in the local veterinary yard (5)

26: Gained a hearing (3)

28: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)





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