Crossword for Sun, 7/Mar/2021

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Across
1: Lined salt shaker made ready for use (9)

6: Take off from small runway (5)

9: OJ rants about USC football players (7)

10: Show attendant a part of the bible (7)

12: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

13: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

15: >From play-by-play: Place where pitchers err and rock with various impurities (7)

17: Bill, in a manner of speaking (7)

18: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)

21: 29-acrosss kid almost climbing 14-down obstacle, keeping movers in daze (13)

24: A mongrel on a mountain takes care of things. (7)

25: Caught sight of leaderless French church embracing a politician. (7)

26: Retro eatery has nothing covered in grease (5)

27: Snarling assistant to devil worshipers (9)
Down
1: This erratic 23-down twisted neck (7)

2: Beginning to send poor around north and south for support (7)

3: At hand no competent help (5)

4: Broke out of cell -- found in prickly sedges (5)

5: Taper rude, non-standard deviation (9)

7: Conceive of gain (7)

8: Drug matures thick soups (7)

11: Idle talkers to go, with one final word about the vessel (7)

14: Publish and be exhausted (4,3)

15: Suddenly lots and lots of black reptiles devouring zebra's head (9)

16: Leaves mid-October accounts depleted by 50 per cent (7)

17: Last year said to be decadent (7)

19: A month's work for a denizen of the deep (7)

20: Dashes the heart out of horribly quiet chickens (7)

22: Crew had dinner, we hear (5)

23: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)




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