Crossword for Fri, 12/Jan/2024

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Across
2: Modern writers' aids

9: Severe

10: Many a Shakespearean actor

11: Spinning part

12: White as a ghost

13: Braille marking

14: Blob of used gum

16: Ophthalmologist's supply

17: Fingernail filer, among criminals

22: John's title

24: Chess piece

25: Leading

26: Covered with creepers

28: It's handed down

30: Block house?

31: Change
Down
1: Flat braid

2: Word with eye or hind

3: Plug a product, e.g.

4: Book end?

5: Subtly flecked

6: Fourth hitter in the batting order

7: Baddies

8: Handel bars?

12: Steak partner

15: Plea bargaining party

17: Patient's complaint, to a doctor

18: Skull

19: Lair of Matisse or Monet

20: 'Here's looking at you, ___'

21: A great quantity are from California

23: Minuteman foe

27: Capri and Wight

29: 'Uh uh'




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