Crossword for Thu, 6/Dec/2018

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Across
1: Artist back on the issue of causing inflamation. (5)

4: Baffling wild giant mice (9)

9: Douglas, initially tough, is knocked out (7)

10: Has responsibility for land she mismanaged (7)

11: New Moslem art depicts turbulent situation (9)

12: Drunken nuisances exhibiting weariness (5)

13: Apartment behind English school reflective place to write (7)

15: Bestows clothes (5)

17: Bad call involving entrance to our neighborhood (5)

20: Exclusive place is developed (7)

22: Full house often enough to secure this young pet (5)

23: Aspirin for one gal in case feverish (9)

25: Norm cut vegetable (7)

26: Freshly pick up select book on top (7)

27: Encrusted with crustaceans, with salt stripped out? (9)

28: Pay in gym before deli spread (5)

Down
1: I am a blond, going to pot around the midsection (9)

2: Learner said it was a huge green monster cooked in gravy. (7)

3: Refusals thwarted goons (2-3)

4: Bore stopped outside ancient city (7)

5: Buried by confused Hindu who took me in. (7)

6: Control staff work collectively (9)

7: Mr. Sharpton's under canvas singing and dancing? (7)

8: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

14: Optomist rashly to count votes before a form of a negative comes up (9)

16: Asked for quote in 3-D (9)

18: Food provider for tom and two queens (7)

19: Knife to skin head and trim pelt (7)

20: On the way up, the german rats played a leading part (7)

21: Heroin's prepared approaching land (7)

24: Serious changes at the end of a kind of train (5)

25: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)





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