Crossword for Mon, 11/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Floodgates

4: Painkiller

8: It's a ball

10: Underprivileged

12: Place for tanning

13: Star seen late at night

14: 'Dust of Snow' poet

16: Royal pain

17: Do a verbal tap dance

18: Forbore

21: Rationed (out)

22: Vague perception

23: The largest in the U.S. was found in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1902

24: Daisy type

26: Elegant

27: One of Fiji's three

28: Salacious

29: Pitcher
Down
1: Don't invite them!

2: Ally

3: Like some delicious crabs

5: Surgery sites, briefly

6: Cowardly, in slang

7: Many, many moons

9: Worst one to handle packages

11: Bronx Bombers

14: Certain researcher

15: Fashionable canine?

19: Handles

20: Take away

24: Black gold

25: Will Ferrell comedy




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