Crossword for Mon, 24/Aug/2020

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Across
1: Do springs help American author? (3,6)

6: Dance in a state of oblivion (5)

9: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

10: Remove bombast from French painter? (5)

11: Attacking garland, certain it was not tied down (2,7)

13: Reprise Piaf's secret: old-fashioned tone (5)

14: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

16: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

17: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

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

22: Staffed without Western religion (5)

24: Bone-picker starts scouring chronicles for one bent on retribution (9)

25: Mousy girlfriend loses head and bellybutton (5)

26: Religious types taking some time in the morning? (5)

28: Kingdom seen in nature, almost (5)

29: Observed, yet seen so poorly (3,4,2)
Down
1: Praised moving anguish (7)

2: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

3: Hurt a wagtail the day before cracking crossword (9)

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

5: Get cosy slip due to fray (5,2)

6: Archipelagos concluded thus in Nigeria (5)

7: Actress Tori, lacking direction, is getting the characters out of order(11)

8: Knot a rope in the great out-of-doors (4-3)

12: Alice, Val or 10-across exploit lotus-eating? (2,5,4)

15: Erma Roddy smoked a Camel (9)

17: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

19: Hardy's first note about novel heroine: she's entertaining (7)

20: Field worker finding insect on vegetables (7)

21: Partially hear the noise coming from the ground (7)

23: Material featured in 'Sudden Impact' (5)

27: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)




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