Crossword for Thu, 26/Aug/2021

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Across
1: Zero writing for 'humble' Wilbur's speech? (7)

5: Again assemble woven rope rug (7)

8: Dating from birth in South African province (5)

9: Trumpeter is a young person with a pullover (9)

12: Bloody bored inside (3)

13: Metallic element forming excellent electrical connection (4,5)

14: Dance in Spooner's very cold prison (9)

17: One who takes after beggarman (5)

19: City official spread rumor, initially (5)

20: One country or another entertains Jolson (9)

21: Commonly uses pretense in expenses (9)

24: Plan to return with woman (3)

25: Warped ramp given overhaul (9)

26: Taxi in a log house? (5)

28: The olde bull's last moo's for daffodils or buttercups, e.g. (7)

29: Mr. Cobb gets badly riled, in the same old way (7)
Down
1: Have bananas now (3)

2: Plain grim? (3,6)

3: I had been at the front, and retired (5)

4: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

5: Fresh ardor mellows outbursts on the highway (4,5)

6: Feed all but the first stranger (5)

7: Organized fatso follows start of precise measurement including pound of seasoning (11)

10: He enables a gambler (7)

11: Celebration geared for retirement (6,5)

15: Seabird coming back around by mistake (7)

16: Live with stewed spinach ingredients (4,5)

18: Is Asian holy man sinning in Asian capital? (9)

22: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

23: Sense of location, we hear (5)

24: Publicity about one expectant father, perhaps (5)

27: Anyway - no! (3)




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