Crossword #8
05 January 2020
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  •  1/21      Top crossword setter (wasn’t Don, strangely) ought to be put in film... (1,3,3,3,7)

  •  6  ...wherein varied cast acts funny (4)

  • 10 Writer, American, faces setback (5)

  • 11 Pausing this film, I do a pee with TV flickering (9)

  • 12 Find this one around Britain with charge displayed in the front (7)

  • 13 Film the German robber finally had embraced (3,4)

  • 14 Surgeon: “I shall use this to make an opening” (5)

  • 16 Cheesy device in murder mystery (9)

  • 19 Broadcast return of Spielberg film V. Diesel remade (9)

  • 20 Perhaps first two reels of film are stored in this tree (5)

  • 22 Houston’s difficulty – end’s fallen off exploratory rocket with moon buggy (7)

  • 25 Verse from Chénier on Deauville (7)

  • 27 Like a film ITC made with M. Caine (9)

  • 28 Animal sound half of those nearby ignored (5)

  • 29 Run from villain from Captain America (third parts only) (4)

  • 30 Hope perhaps does away with reported props from Cool Runnings (10)

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  •  1  TV spot English director turned into a film (7)

  •  2  English stereotype, say, in real life accepting a bit of sleazy sex (5,4)

  •  3  Jelly used in Lucas’ pictures (5)

  •  4  Director I have followed fails spectacularly; goes down causing destruction (4-5)

  •  5  Went out in the water with a director and editor (5)

  •  7  Lizard found in Wagamamas (5)

  •  8  Adjust YouTube playback settings perhaps to make Keanu film more popular (5,2)

  •  9  Domestic – he may be taken in by Gibson in dance party (4,4)

  • 15 Light popular in ’70s Hollywood with Kilmer and a politician (4,4)

  • 17 With restraint, plays one of France’s grasses protecting cultural leader (9)

  • 18 Without acting – Dwayne Johnson having lunch perhaps, or shooting up (9)

  • 19 Currently of interest to Pacino, say, in short picture? Quite the opposite (7)

  • 21 See 1 Across

  • 23 Admit it, it hurts to put back wordplay (3,2)

  • 24 French underground encountered resistance? Nothing (5)

  • 26 Any denomination but Anglican, for the time being (5)

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