Crossword for Thu, 20/Feb/2020

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Across
1: Neat plastic hash pipes (9)

6: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)

9: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

10: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

11: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

12: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

13: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

14: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

15: Lead around other green (7)

17: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

18: Take Chair in university (3)

19: Old pies thrown in sack (7)

22: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

23: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

25: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

26: See, you are a cad. (3)

27: After start of century, Maud, I'm mixing a yellow pigment (7)

28: In the manner of a girl (3)

29: Birds in the wilderness (5)

30: Aquatic plant providing a variety of materials (5,4)
Down
2: Tin trains converted while travelling? (2,7)

3: Little Digger pens sailboat drawing sheets (6,3)

4: Press against a container of Mexican beer and vodka (7)

5: Record unusually green ornamental centrepiece (7)

6: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

7: Scheme conclusion for jet set (5)

8: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

9: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

16: Al's gamble on outcome of sports (4,5)

17: A woman loved what a Roman is content about (9)

20: Curiously mad sort of celebrity (7)

21: One in Dickens role is Sir Laurence (7)

24: Father Brown's latest femme fatale (5)

25: Birds in white trousers (5)




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