Crossword for Thu, 3/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Bribes due to be discredited in AFL? (9)

6: Direct object (3)

8: Snoopy, no? Yes, in retrospect (5)

10: State proviso (9)

11: Magnets break rules (5)

13: Arabs lost sneaky bird (9)

15: Delay yield (5)

16: Drop in rent keeping me housed after last month (9)

17: Measuring exotic flowers (9)

19: Bring Father back to hang buckets on maples again (5)

22: One who concentrates on princess, yet ignores her at first (9)

23: As in 'Lee goes back to the drawing board' (5)

24: Frozen awkwardly, i.e. a tin man (9)

26: Reportedly cruises the internet for laborers (5)

27: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

28: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)
Down
1: Class was first to be aroused (7)

2: Sounds like a wolf on the coast (3)

3: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

4: Sounds like a bright child (3).

5: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

6: Spot, I suggest, is fatty (7)

7: Send Tim out for attitude (4-3)

9: Short line in letter back-fires (5)

12: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)

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

17: Animal turned left - that is right for the more righteous (7)

18: Say again 'Others had food' (7)

20: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

21: Officers mentioned coat (7)

25: In the manner of a girl (3)

26: Lifeblood of dope (3)




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