Crossword for Fri, 18/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

7: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

9: Lick up pal (3)

10: Have bananas now (3)

11: Gather and count to the next-highest multiple (5,2)

12: Menzies-Carr alliance keeps eye on silly timers (3-3,7)

13: Pick a wrong angle (5)

14: Direct object (3)

15: Peeled, making Pop embarrassed? (5)

16: I hear mantas and surface (5)

18: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

19: Provoke popular scoundrel. (5)

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

25: Crazy bald guy in Beetle (7)

26: Former name for joint audition (3)

27: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

28: I shall be sick! (3)

29: Mixed greens and teals, so dad's remodeled (6,5)
Down
1: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

2: Accept a double pint before reeling over (7)

3: Jump all over Kegler, say (9)

4: Clair West to continue with present policy? (5)

5: Treat sick duck? Mothers after foreign tissue tumours (9)

6: Baker finds use for such money (5)

7: Final recipient of product ensured indiscreetly. (3, 4)

8: Show sedated one giving details (9)

13: Soldier embracing a bawdy Italian patriot (9)

14: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

15: Senseless and dull? (9)

17: One who does not believe in Castro (7)

20: Officer is bit of a nut, they say (7)

22: Path of planet - or particle (5)

23: Tiny weight once you're in (5)

24: Some wear medals when carrying weapons (5)




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