Crossword for Thu, 2/Mar/2017

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Across
2: Fastened and collapsed. (7)

6: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

8: How agitated was US snake? (7)

9: Seize marijuana that's changing it's last stop (5)

10: Implement box for young cat (3)

11: Drunk, I'm with a couple of bimbos on top of bed (7)

13: Spring restored sap (3)

14: Belli's case, perhaps! (5)

15: Fancied whos coming to dinner, we hear (7)

16: Allies see Resistance being captured by brutes (7)

19: Five in Christmas story (5)

21: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)

22: Deciphered code in a sea-nymph (7)

23: Right, turn right to play with robot (3)

25: Material from N.Y. - Long Island (5)

27: Journey to get crude oil in capital (7)

28: Is Pat suitable? (3)

29: True one hiding along the way (2,5)
Down
1: Reportedly hoist Jeter of the NY Yankees (5)

2: An animal which flies high but comes back for a place to wash (7)

3: Crazy bald guy in Beetle (7)

4: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

5: Reportedly remained sober (5)

6: Former spouse was a model, it's revealed (7)

7: Tries getting involved in real drama practice (9)

11: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

12: Later round without an opponent (3)

14: A state, see - one in America - one with an American capital (9)

16: One implement for catching tuna damaged the fins (7)

17: Odds of niece being born (3)

18: Treason destroyed Washington insider (7)

19: Agree to make Lucifer wicked? (3)

20: Wordy poem about Hope, mostly (7)

22: Defeated after losing leader, gets plastered (5)

24: Dahl, for one, reported as curry house side-order (5)

26: Former name for joint audition (3)




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