Crossword for Mon, 23/Aug/2021

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Across
1: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

7: Escalating naked conflict (3)

9: Girl hatches subterfuge in prison tower (11)

10: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)

11: Scale Ten after taxes (3)

12: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

13: Check German car ahead of time (5)

15: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

16: The country was against some guarantors. (7)

17: Tipsy couple's getting intimate (5, 2)

20: Studio sign initially obscured by swirling rain (2,3)

23: Measure action to follow (5)

24: First-class puzzle originally from Ontario is available (2,3)

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

27: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

28: Stimulant produced as choir paid off (11)

29: Top card? Excellent! (3)

30: Pretty girl takes part in outdoor cooking? No just toys (6, 5).

Down
1: Dizzy Ben is a playwright (5)

2: Kiln in western state, near the shore (7)

3: Incorporated transportation firm and bank (7)

4: Caribbean tourists love to do this as dolphin cavorts (6-3)

5: English measure of qualifications? (5)

6: Take out former pamphlet? (7)

7: Did glow confuse crazed cur? (4, 3)

8: Last brute buckles under counter arguments (9)

14: Ensemble torches tram's interior (9)

16: With greater reason for a riot I riot (1,8)

18: Watch, say (7)

19: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

21: Was pertinent Associated Press page misrepresented? (7)

22: Trailer crashed in second test (7)

24: Mom going topless--that's something else (5)

26: Birds in white trousers (5)





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