Crossword for Tue, 15/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Which creatures are found in factions? (7)

5: Wildcats left out in capital (7)

8: Cloth arrived by air after 50 hours (9)

9: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)

10: I, for one, adhere to edict (13)

12: Anger that is constraining response (3)

13: Reportedly went after pamphlet (5)

15: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

17: Tender translator of runes (5)

19: I, astride colt's mother with Donny's sister (5)

20: Frost to cover the cake (3)

22: Location of cheating, fiercer gender (4,9)

24: Was sick girl set up? (5)

25: Capital - a Schubert composition (9)

27: Having red nose, turned back (7)

28: English poet writes about head of Scottish queen (7)

Down
1: Nice work - point out the beginning (9)

2: In all, just a little peak. (3)

3: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

4: Make southpaw north (5)

5: Tradesman confined in nurses embrace (9)

6: Talk about rent for a piece of property (7)

7: Course left out of Texas city's comeback (5)

9: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

11: Nothing we have to pay (3)

14: Praiseworthy naval officer, English, found around boat's prow (9)

16: Midshipman: one who hates anchor (9)

18: Communist air force is entertained - entertained splendidly (7)

20: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

21: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

23: Concentrate on projectionist chore (5)

26: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)





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