Crossword for Wed, 16/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Church members loosely align headphones (9)

5: Grow, taking head of iceberg to show again (5)

8: 7-down relic? (6,5)

10: In the manner of a girl (3)

11: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

13: Anyway - no! (3)

14: Very clever fish ain't at sea (9)

16: Starts to name Olivia Newton-John 'Country Entertainer' for the time being (5)

17: Land and take off: beginning of flight (5)

19: Ermine, missing tail, squeezing into opening in fence to engage in the process of creating new life (9)

20: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)

21: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

25: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

26: Just grazed the pasty? (4-7)

27: Decimal, in many cases (5)

28: Author of Breathe Out, Lay Out, Going Out? (4,5)
Down
1: Allow meathead into mine opening (5)

2: Steel is ruined, nearly destroyed (5)

3: Abundant specimen doffing cap (5)

4: Pump witness (9)

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

6: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

7: Drink is flowing, by the sound of it, where Magna Carta was signed (9)

9: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

12: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

14: Freezing - with nothing on top? (5,4)

15: A country inn, a great building (9)

18: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

22: Rapidity with which heat's dissipated (5)

23: Trust woman (5)

24: Roosevelt's undergarment? (5)

26: What this puzzle is (3)




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