Crossword for Thu, 10/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Trappers

5: Parlor artwork

8: It may be political

9: Medical test control substance

11: MAKEUP

13: Place for a feeling

14: Blot on the landscape

16: Bar ingredient, perhaps

17: Crazed

19: Fine fabric

20: Was in charge

21: Ace

24: Stark

25: Stemming

27: Without relenting

28: Sanctuaries

Down
2: Most important

3: Have stuff

4: Spire

5: Emulating a happy foot

6: Banquet figure

7: Diminutive dessert?

8: Hang loosely

10: Absorb intently

12: Thing that conceals

14: Humiliate

15: Things to run

18: Dishonesty

19: Layered pastry

22: 'Farewell, François!'

23: Barrel of suds

26: Type of league





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