Crossword for Thu, 2/Dec/2021

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Across
1: Changes direction with care, as befits a benefactor. (4, 4, 5)

6: Returning, sued about 60 very tricky (7)

9: Love our following morning (5)

10: Discharge from Greek island (7)

11: Punk brains a teenage witch (7)

12: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

14: Draw the knot (3)

15: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

16: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

17: Dryest arts die painfully (7)

18: Kind of sign alphabet linked Italian leader with Fascist (3-4)

20: Hordes of unions' speakers (5)

21: Stupid alien filmed in undergrowth (7)

22: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)
Down
1: Ruse duck (5)

2: Ball-horses are travellers! (5-8)

3: Conducts true incomplete search before Tuesday the 5th of August (9)

4: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

5: The sky in the Bible is solid...true? True (9)

7: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

8: Hear Native American appeal (3)

9: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

12: Poem about social worker left with grace (9)

13: Do people in the medical speciality consider law? (9)

18: Capture ten heading north (3)

19: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)




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