Crossword for Sun, 27/Dec/2020

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Across
1: In Cuba, eliminating a U.S. nightmare (7)

5: Make money and set out to be serious (7)

9: Good place for sniper for fill? (9)

11: Appeal, as I kneel, revealing special light in my eyes? (5)

12: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

13: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

14: Publication for children (5)

15: Flirting could end with marriage (9)

17: Poor man's right to make powerless (9)

21: Message obscured by cinema illumination (5)

23: 'Pops' is very unhappy in retrospect (5)

25: One who fought animal doctor ran after horse, ultimately (7)

26: She used to be called Celia (5)

27: Ban professional writer (9)

28: Dead time after amusement in December (7)

29: Mr. Sharpton's under canvas singing and dancing? (7)
Down
2: American storyteller captures 150 English men before Sunday (7)

3: Capital - a Schubert composition (9)

4: Questionable chits rejected by Abbott (7)

6: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

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

8: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

9: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

10: Laughable Democratic line-up (5)

16: All the same, I lanced it, painfully (9)

18: Central section interrupting main tune (7)

19: Frost over mid-January during epic exploit (3,2)

20: Publish and be exhausted (4,3)

22: Indict a sprinkling of reporters? (7)

24: Firm rear end (5)




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