The Independent Crossword Answers December 19, 2020

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Across

Country set? CHINA
Show clue for Tom’s tricycle? STRICTLY
Note taken badly – it may suggest exposure FAKETAN
Piebald surprisingly walking upright BIPEDAL
Extracts energy, legal up to a point ELICITS
With internal publicity, confronts illusions FACADES
Bet tall girl, 21, gets 6 24 21 prize GLITTERBALL
View five siblings on the air, or thousands on 6 24 21 SEQUINS
See 6 STRICTLY
Gloss given by oil company account SHELLAC
Outlying motorway cuts through ruined Exeter EXTREME
Expose yourself to the mafia in brief public assembly FLASHMOB
Tasteful crop is back in hairdresser catalogues CRESS

Down

Connect annexe for Spooner, getting out with difficulty WINKLING
Cocktail that sounds like it has a hold on me? MAITAI
Provision rejected in Edinburgh GRUB
Misled, lost head, and fled? ELUDED
Add calorie on top of skimmed sweet drink COFFEE
Skiing regularly leads to envy, possibly SIN
Suitable leaders of children’s holiday activities go after Conservative – it proves humanity CAPTCHA
When hot, follows Latin beat LASH
References heard for positions SITES
Sacked or let off FIRED
Here in France, caught the French descendants in cold weather? ICICLES
Gnarly old tree I hung around LOITERED
House-sitter keeps applications USES
Matures, holds on, and settles AGREES
Suppresses queens, replacing English nationalist with liberals QUELLS
Recognise description of fake diamonds? NOTICE
See 6 Across STRICTLY
Retreat from eager beaver’s bossiness at first EBB