Crossword for Fri, 16/Feb/2024

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Across
1: Subject to annulment

6: Showcase for skits

9: Thumbs up

10: Showed fear

11: Movie houses

12: Beset with attackers

13: 'The Gift of the Magi' device

14: Hebrew leader

16: Wise quality?

17: More than recessed

21: Polish receivers

23: On the move

24: Declaration

26: Increases steadily

27: Feeling off

28: One way to get directions

30: Dessert trays

31: Soaked through and through

Down
1: Piano man Charles

2: Apparent

3: Diamond weight

4: Units of joy?

5: Practices cryptography

6: Version

7: Skedaddle

8: Bacon and others

14: Painkiller

15: Shapely timekeeper's gauge?

18: More succulent

19: Fierce foes

20: One who might get to the root of the problem?

22: Like some coffee

25: Office worker, at times

29: 4-H member, usually





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