Crossword for Mon, 1/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Takes back

6: Ancient mariner

8: Block passage through

10: Stick on a table

11: Long-nosed fish

12: Campaigned for office

13: Kewpie doll feature

14: Plains transport

15: Making crank calls, e.g.

16: Was lost in thought

17: Traveled like a tennis lob

19: They may be special

21: Betrayal of country

22: It's contracted

24: Wedding page word

25: Squeeze (out)

27: Helpful hint

28: Male youth

29: Morse code component

30: Fashionable canine?
Down
1: Man of steel?

2: Another helping

3: Hazarding a guess: manager of a political candidate?

4: Droop

5: Cutting language

6: Mottled inlay material

7: Great seating for fights

9: Understanding

14: Hardly generous

15: Encouraged

18: Final course

20: Recovery setback

23: Kosher meal

26: Palindromic preposition




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