Crossword for Thu, 11/May/2023

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Across
1: Not square

3: Working

9: Flaunted

10: Butter-making device

11: Ridiculous acts

12: Triumphant shout

13: Puts back on, as weight

14: Refrains

17: Felonious

19: Secret partnership

20: Photo ___ (media events)

22: BLUE JEANS

24: Fall pigment

25: Organic catalysts

26: Job that involves ladder climbing

27: Senate vote
Down
1: Expectations

2: Attorney's helper

3: Priest-making

4: Going on forever

5: Defendant

6: Like some trigger fingers

7: English subjects

8: Polyglots

13: Protected, in a way

15: Whiskered pooch

16: Employee of a major bicycle manufacturing company?

18: Kind of beetle

19: Purring, say

20: 'On the ___ hand...'

21: Cursive curlicue

23: Irreverent




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