Crossword for Thu, 18/Feb/2021

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Across
1: Don't invite them!

6: Burning briquet, eventually

8: One year for a renter, perhaps

10: Colorado ski resort

11: Challenge the credibility of

13: Poisonous plant

14: Break bread

15: Certain rattlesnake or terrapin

16: King Richard's epithet

19: Rotter

21: Oddity

22: Racks up

23: Punk singer Patti

24: Impetuous one

26: Logic circuit element

27: They help some to come out of their shells
Down
2: Possess

3: Rope in a ship's rigging

4: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

5: Read, as a bar code

6: They can be deceiving

7: Nag, nag, nag

8: Strong string

9: 'Boston Public' figure

12: Hazarding a guess: sidewalk engineer?

16: The French connection?

17: Nonbeliever

18: Severe

20: Supplied medicine to

25: Palindromic preposition




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