Crossword for Wed, 12/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Internet user's concern

6: Precious stone

9: A meter reader

10: Comb backwards

11: Robot's lack

13: Antiknock fluid

15: Amended

16: Cooker for drumsticks and such

17: Recovery clinic

20: Challenge the credibility of

22: Summarize

23: Woodworker

25: They fly in skeins

26: Reserve

28: Royal pains

29: Hearty entree
Down
1: Effusively friendly person

2: Capture

3: Hardly the carefree sort

4: Backless sofa

5: Feminine pronoun

6: On edge

7: Part of the evening news

8: Canard

12: They help some to come out of their shells

14: Marine, or impediment for Dracula?

18: Unfortunate

19: Masseur's offering

21: Pokes holes in

24: Adjust, as laces

25: Opening

27: Name-dropper's word?




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