Crossword for Thu, 15/Sep/2022

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Across
1: Dog leaps in puddles (7)

5: A Baptist's head held by a priest in a river (7)

8: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

10: Backroom houses last component of engine (5)

11: Tom Sharpe source of imagery (9)

14: Lick up pal (3)

16: Globe's automobile award (5)

18: An idea to throw out ring away from home (3,2)

19: Childish nonsense before the last trip (5)

20: Total for the match (5)

21: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

22: Defective gas meters for people who take chances (9)

24: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

26: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

28: Pack animal swallows a red candy (7)

29: Free time around quiet stream (7)

Down
1: Beat it and ran, for example, with Girl Scout ingredients (9,4)

2: Allow meathead into mine opening (5)

3: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

4: Fill-in professional almost rewrote the column (5)

5: Family member suppresses a temptation to go head-to-foot naked (2,7)

6: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

7: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

9: Clearly notes Earths at a particular compass point (4-5-4)

12: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

13: Decimal, in many cases (5)

15: Glint of silica in neat crystal (5)

17: Souped-up car halted at Winchester church. (9)

23: Upset expression of surprise follows failure of comic take-off (5)

25: Gardener's concoction left in a lot (5)

26: Mink, for one, may fly when theres trouble (3)

27: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)





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