Crossword for Wed, 13/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Step on stage

3: Artists' buys

8: One moving on all fours

9: Fit to be taken in

11: Tree fluid

12: Starting out

13: Scrooge's epithet

14: Expostulatory

16: One looking for trouble, in a way

19: '___ iron bars a cage'

20: Twin

23: Troublemaker

25: Go out of bounds, perhaps

26: Got one's point across?

27: Cool in a crisis

28: Whichever
Down
1: Treaties

2: SWAT team specialists

3: Fixed, as a shoe

4: Essex, e.g.

5: Make tawdry

6: Nail-___ (tense situation)

7: Finch variety

10: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

13: Type of pool

14: KO caller

15: Feathers partner

17: One that got away

18: Lingered

21: Add up

22: Sealed a package

24: Rice field




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