The Independent Crossword Answers December 31, 2020

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Across

Having special leave to pick up consignment of mink perhaps FURLOUGHED
Noisy bunch completely swamping host in virtual meeting ZOOM
Substance used in test run on key worker REAGENT
Media’s fake news for all to see after Michigan vote MILIEUX
Close to Johnson, hire misfits in government, standing firm INHERING
Spill the beans – many pupils have not been here much this year! INFORM
Order: wear valid mask DRAWAVEIL
Play Little Richard classic DORIC
Unknown heads of test and trace member of ruling party backed – lousy! NITTY
Loser, full of ego, short of 50%, used to celebrate victory TRIUMPHAL
Plant container outside Four Seasons finally serves as turning point PIVOTS
One handling stock finding glimmer of hope in new mRNA vaccine cutting odds RANCHMAN
Recount North America’s speed of virus transmission NARRATE
Suggests Matt, in the main, is heading in the wrong direction ALLUDES
See 6 ZOOM
Supporting pubs in lockdown? BEHINDBARS

Down

How the US voted encompasses Donald’s number one taboo FORBIDDEN
Accomplish rupture with British withdrawing REACH
Johnson’s deal was so half-baked? OVENREADY
Observe Harding, latterly in the ascendant, prosper GETON
Award ceremony insiders mass virtually in the end EMMY
Part of EU (north) splintered ONEFOURTH
Saying a team must keep two metres apart MAXIM
Families heading for Christmas on computer network CLAN
Supermarket covered by social distancing ALDI
Drug variant developed with involvement of international labs, primarily ANTIVIRAL
Brew teas – what one does to help, when out? EATS
Legally resident, Cummings not in? Lied outrageously! DOMICILED
Colston is toppled – such people promoted imperialism COLONISTS
An irrational reaction to Covid-19, say, not democratic? PANIC
Duck! Rampaging Patel blowing top! TEAL
Leaders in America and Belarus are cheating in counting methods ABACI
Marcus’s lead on issue in the end raised support in press etc MEDIA
Give up once Democrat’s got in! CEDE