Crossword for Sat, 23/Nov/2019

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Across
1: Flower festival is pointless (5)

4: Scores may appear amongst the trees (9)

9: Bald guy squashes insect (7)

10: Something to knock down in the alley for writer at home? Back at home? (7)

11: Let bank arrange cover (7)

13: Hold spellbound in the tenth rally (7)

15: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

18: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

19: Nothing we have to pay (3)

20: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

21: Finished holding second half of tour; it's lasted (7)

22: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

25: The ex-President's back; time to withdraw? (7)

26: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)

28: Dotty rides around corrals with someone who passes out (9)

29: A long way to go for a monomaniacal musician (5)
Down
1: Unscripted part for head librarian (2,3)

2: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

3: Caress one grand puzzlemaster (5)

4: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

5: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

6: Awfully smart name for soldiers (3-2-4)

7: Concerning story can be made good (9)

8: Child, bask by the sound (3)

12: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

14: Got excited by unusual tulip (3,2)

15: Maxim is a little man (5)

16: Coats need woven yarns (9)

17: Questionable act raises link between stories (9)

23: Mineral springs start to moderate involuntary muscular contraction (5)

24: Refusals thwarted goons (2-3)

25: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

26: About....about right? Wrong! (3)

27: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)




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