Crossword for Thu, 25/Nov/2021

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Across
1: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

8: Decline a stab in bum (7)

9: Evil, as written about a discolouration (7)

11: Souped-up car halted at Winchester church. (9)

12: Bar one not keeping heart of bargain (5)

13: Ruck dangerously, stop when many are involved. (5)

16: Search for an escapee, one vandal hiding in mountain (7)

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

21: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)

23: Notes spent in Germany (5)

24: Recruit criminal with calligraphy (9)

27: Bad cons make a break and run away (7)

28: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

29: Disbelieving customer found in fetid cell in turmoil. (7,6)
Down
1: Risks making Chinese detective dry up (7)

2: Zantac's first in things to buy for composer (5)

3: Idea that is consuming Dell Crossword Puzzles, say (5)

4: Fit so much in French drink (7)

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

6: Impugn guest in R.I. for clandestine affairs (9)

7: Yielded gutlessly, taking in hopeless cheat as he sailed by. (7)

10: Cancelled requirement to carry gun (7)

14: Where nurses work progressively (7)

15: Finish up with discontinued language? (6,3)

17: Associate to give 25-down up, cryptically? (7)

19: Resolute British detectives in action (7)

20: Polite fellow, but a slippery character (7)

22: Text, Inc., bankrupted, is gone (7)

25: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

26: Paper boy? (5)




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