Crossword for Thu, 14/Sep/2023

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Across
1: Powerful female

5: 'x y = z' study

8: Ethanol vis-à-vis gasoline

10: Talk foolishly

11: Short-lived

13: Chute material

14: Oscar or Emmy

15: Tropical American starch plant

17: Shoulder board (Var.)

18: Potato, for one

19: First synthetic fiber

20: Marian Anderson, for one

22: Like a fiddle?

23: Lots

25: Temporary

26: Fools
Down
1: Clear

2: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

3: Poetic preposition

4: You may step on it

6: SPRING

7: Colorado ski mecca

9: Magnify

10: Cowardly, in slang

12: Example of polluted politics

15: Bicarb, e.g.

16: Galápagos notables

19: Eric Clapton solos

21: Pushed with the proboscis

24: Hardly hale




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