Crossword for Sun, 24/Jan/2021

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Across
1: Definitely the recital is arranged (7)

4: State goddess gets in first (7)

8: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

9: Disturbance is the robbery (5)

11: Down by one shot (5)

12: Good girls in spectacles (7)

13: Property agent for existing rocky peak (7)

15: Word in a lexicon describing kind of number (7)

17: Merchant finally stocking this and that (5)

19: Slight urge at night (5)

20: Bitter expert with broken crib (7)

21: Thoughtful former spouse leaves, dear (7)

22: PIcture lines as in visions. (7)

24: Egad, a retracting saw (5)

26: Excerpt from selection in 'The Ultimate Life of a Cat,' perhaps (5)

27: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)

28: Something one has to face: We're boy crazy! (7)

29: Vie with prisoner and nurse (7)
Down
1: Not clear but large; you ring us after the morning (9)

2: Drunkard turns up near beach, reversing new habit, to sleep fitfully (4,3,4)

3: Almost all choose fresh salmon (5)

4: Police questioning a retiring toon under the table (13)

5: Put down cloak and strip (9)

6: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

7: A prison in motion (5)

10: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

14: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

16: Crooked Nile ran on, just not in a straight line (9)

18: Hidden in tomb? (9)

21: It flies out of Nepal! (5)

23: Britannia - she never has blanched (5)

25: Consumed and digested tea (3)




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