Crossword for Wed, 11/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Wrongdoer's bane

8: SWAT team specialists

10: Comes back

11: Poison used in a play

12: Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

17: 42 gal., to OPEC

18: Earth's core?

19: Carpenters visit them

20: Stomach settler

22: Acetylsalicylic acid

26: Modern writers' aids

27: Mottled inlay material
Down
1: More likely to mouth off

2: Ill-suited

3: Hoglike animal

4: Community character

5: One who may elicit double takes

6: Garden intruders

7: Kind of triangle

9: Barrier that bumps boat bottoms

12: Sculptor's medium, perhaps

13: Gated places

14: Long fish

15: Bony-plated beast

16: Vote against

21: Welcome forecast

22: Campfire remains

23: Bonds

24: Superman portrayer

25: Stuffy-sounding




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