Crossword for Sat, 14/Jan/2023

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2: Modern writers' aids

8: Diminutive dog

9: Stomach

10: Affinity for music

11: Blew one's cork

13: Bent out of shape

14: Comparison

15: Movers' conveyances

17: Makes beloved

19: Sweet potato

20: Go beyond

21: Pastoral poem

22: Shad delicacy

23: What a scholarship might pay

25: Kitten's cry

26: Worst one to handle packages
Down
1: Do this, then that, then this again

2: Undercover worker

3: Edinburgh boy

4: Indulged

5: BIG DIPPER

6: Lightning

7: Bred winners?

9: Input for a recorder

12: September honoree

13: Princeton's League

16: The still-hungry sucker ___ the bait

18: Badge wearer

19: Unpaired

20: Pulsate

24: Act closer?

25: Ed.'s work pile




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