Crossword for Tue, 22/Jun/2021

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Across
1: Sounded like a jackass relating hairy entanglement (5)

4: Dreadful bender did result in being laid up. (9)

9: Critical analysis of letters from Beau to psychiatrist (7)

10: Quasimodos intuition? (5)

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

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

15: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

16: Continuously flows from the right to enter a competitive group on board (7)

17: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

19: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

20: Stays concerned with water pipes (7)

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

23: Broke out of cell -- found in prickly sedges (5)

24: Unmatched on plainer work (9)

25: Steel is ruined, nearly destroyed (5)

26: I hear not many insulted a real McCoy (7)

28: Delicate stem is enlightening (5,4)

29: Still drunk, sings in a light, rhythmic way (5)

Down
1: Bill accepts new slant in Jack's Magic Ladder? (9)

2: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

3: Describes a northeastern state and some ancient Britons (7)

4: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

5: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

6: Fires possibly singe it (7)

7: Hope destiny is remarkable - to free the mind (11)

8: Guinevere maintains, 'When hell freezes over!' (5)

12: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

13: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

18: Large masses of insects beleaguering crazed lion (9)

20: Defence work to smell a rat all over again (7)

21: Sounds like actor Stephen's a scavenger (7)

23: Defame how I live in 16-across local (5)

26: Chain some; cuff objectors (3)

27: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)





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