Crossword for Mon, 12/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners?

6: Very small

8: Cowardly, in slang

10: Indian, e.g.

11: Practically any bird, e.g.

12: Juicy morsels

13: Unsteady

15: Most affluent

17: Hot spot

20: Infamy

23: Geological span

24: Party for sheep shearers?

25: Place (a bet)

26: Job that involves ladder climbing
Down
1: Embargo

2: Country bumpkin

3: Word following 'Be my'

4: Some wind players

5: Fill (with)

6: Shape with a knife

7: Eighty-something, e.g.

9: 'Men in Black' costar Tommy ___ Jones

14: Gaining control over, in a way

15: Magazine notice

16: Soft, light and fluffy

17: Blank first page

18: In the midst of

19: Gravedigger, at times

21: Classless newspaper

22: 'C'mon in!'




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