Crossword for Wed, 16/Aug/2023

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2: Does over, as a manuscript

6: Roughly one drop of liquid

9: More callow

10: Snake bite remedies

11: Rap sheet entry

13: New York state motto ('ever upward')

15: Obscenity substitute, perhaps

16: Service station job

17: You can't eat with just one

19: Deduce

21: Star seen late at night

22: Tropical lizard

24: Polish application

26: Remain (with)

27: Things

28: Old-fashioned clothes presser

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1: Backpack part

2: Editorial function

3: Ancient mariner

4: Solar system model

5: Go down

6: Example of polluted politics

7: Meshed up?

8: Word in a Captain and Tennille title

12: Takes back

14: Small potatoes

17: Gigantic statues

18: Make unfashionable

20: Novels, for example

23: 'The Old ___ Bucket'

25: 'No ___, ands, or buts!'

26: Churchill's title





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