Crossword for Wed, 23/Feb/2022

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Across
2: Tidy up and clean floor finally and decisively (4,3,3,3)

8: Sprinted fleetly? (3)

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

12: Left behind? Shiver violently and wither (7)

13: He stirs up a one who had referred to him in the past. (7)

14: Mishaps or odd sayings (9)

15: Mis-trust this support (5)

17: Two articles in French about Diamonds and Big Dipper (5)

20: Does Rod go to pieces with kind but impractical reformers? (2-7)

24: Loud lot ran out at the head (7)

25: Taxi C.E.O. ordered for the not-so-ordinary (7)

26: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

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

28: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)
Down
1: Aquatic plant providing a variety of materials (5,4)

3: Stiff spelunker swallowed plug (7)

4: Stops trains and big trucks (7)

5: A legendary string player, he joins us after turning professional (7)

6: Rear oat variety as a way to break up the soil (7)

7: Film relay got mixed up (5)

9: Upward in Aspen (or thereabouts) (5)

11: No French islands for the other Dr. Crane (5)

16: Relaxed back at vicarage with a NZ channel (6,3)

18: D*** petrol pump sample? (7)

19: Hold spellbound in the tenth rally (7)

20: Diet I'm crazy about will eventually set boundaries (7)

21: Pick a wrong angle (5)

22: Little singer returned, following band to total a hairy little mother with seating for one. (7)

23: Changes orders and loses 100 (5)

24: Not make it around first lash of whip (5)




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