Crossword for Thu, 18/May/2023

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Across
1: Slander

5: Harmonized hymn

9: Novel setting for Solzhenitsyn

10: Sacked

11: Foolish

12: What George has?

14: He or she can't be known

17: The boonies, e.g.

21: Treeing

22: Annoyed

23: Math figure

25: Press on

27: Hot Plymouth cars of the '70s

28: Like some professors
Down
1: There is a lot of this going on in debate clubs

2: Spanky, to Alfalfa

3: Too bad

4: Give official control to

5: Ten-footer in Shakespeare?

6: Trite

7: Tropical American starch plant

8: Sign the back of

13: Birth

15: Hinders

16: Came back on stage

18: Flinches

19: Least forthcoming

20: Sung in Tyrolean style

24: Historical period

26: According to




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