Crossword for Thu, 20/Jan/2022

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Across
1: Certain mollusk back in Hokkaido ports again (9)

6: Icy turning, for example, on top (5)

9: Dexterity is an insult, so we hear (7)

10: Bill is after Chuck to discipline (7)

11: True-blue pub changes at heart (5)

12: Sally was ready to embrace East German (7)

13: Don't encourage satellite pace to slacken. (11)

16: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

17: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

18: 15-acrosss toilet pot? Rubbish! (5,6)

20: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

23: Sinister, in bloody honour. (5)

25: Charge one piece of mandarin fruit (7)

26: Poorer and more squalid, heading from south to north (7)

28: A prison is in commotion (5)

29: See, sir; bar is operating at the beer eatery (9)
Down
1: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

2: Shabby but virile? (5)

3: Typical! Pull over in back (7)

4: Favorite obsession, love touching undergarment (9)

5: Ornamentation used in the a la mode coronet (5)

6: Hold onto string and file (5)

7: Most recent gallery works may be a result of procrastination (4,5)

8: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

11: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

14: Difficult situation with drug in back of pantihose (5,4)

15: I may fall into pit in a remote country (9)

19: Artist's entrance (7)

21: One in charge of carbon filament (5)

22: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

24: Wild rose engulfs one willow (5)

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




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