Crossword for Mon, 26/Dec/2022

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Across
2: Person in a suit sporting ordinary flap (9)

7: Standard style of music rejected (3)

9: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

10: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

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

13: Tossing and turning, I wondered what the comforter might be made of (9)

16: Naked bronzed French hunk veiled in paper-thin kerchief (7)

18: Others acquired skill to turn over a new leaf (7)

19: Horse fly's, um, retreating (7)

20: Seedy lawyer is short on rest, disturbed (7)

21: One annoying to Republican advisor (9)

22: Wayward schoolgirl's taken home (5)

24: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

27: Throw out faulty nib (3)

28: Call for help oddly stops (3)

29: Urgently compelled president? Sure - with democratic leader (9)

Down
1: Bury with arms and legs but no head (5)

2: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

3: Pathological bumbler holds a record (5)

4: Playwright rethinking copyright wrangle (4,7)

5: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

6: In favor of echoing game call (3)

7: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

8: Oscillating crystal perhaps not so rare (9)

12: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

14: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

15: Adventurous gentleman's going west to Kentucky (5)

16: Delilah, practically bare, cuts hair! (9)

17: Jack's described part of a church (5)

22: Private dinner starts late (5)

23: At one time, gobbling up two tablespoons (5)

25: Rascal and wuss taking week off (3)

26: Consumed and digested tea (3)

27: Tender command (3)





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