Crossword for Fri, 29/Jan/2021

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Across
1: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)

6: Draw the knot (3)

8: Italian gentlemen's token or piece of silver (7)

9: On the other hand, spare second French town (7)

10: Painting a beard (7)

12: Sponges kisses after initiation (7)

13: Members of Ravenclaw hit Hermione where? (7)

15: Make known one pound increase after high school (7)

17: Break up the rock group from hell. (7)

19: Play overtime...'What have we here?' (7)

21: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

23: Where to find team-players with guts? (7)

25: Against that terrible, consuming war (7)

26: Thankless person from Tangier (7)

28: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)

29: Sly dog covers horses for dancers (3-8)

Down
1: Try to deny yod is a vowel intrinsically (7)

2: Complain about the horse (3)

3: Excellent osseous dark wood (5)

4: French scientist tears up plays (7)

5: Cry at nothing and hope to be only slightly cowardly? (9)

6: Discipline the heartless and agonize endlessly (5)

7: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

9: Ordered hoop to conserve mass and energy (5)

11: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

14: Capital investment producing hard faces (9)

16: Bound to hear what they did about the leak? (5)

17: Funny men smothered in dismal country (7)

18: Brand on utilitarian stocking: 'Krispy Kreme' (5)

19: Nothing virile about British actor (7)

20: Storey's fantastic seafood (7)

22: City train bears the woman's name (5)

24: Sense of location, we hear (5)

27: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)





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