Crossword for Thu, 19/Oct/2017

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Across
1: Fodder holder

5: Compact's lack

9: Editorial function

10: Tip off the wire?

11: Wander (about)

12: Slogan

15: Spectacles, e.g.

16: 'The Raven' author's monogram

17: Like Fran Drescher's voice

19: Losers with good attitudes

21: Saxophonist's jacket?

22: Creator of the universe

23: Three-pronged spear

25: Vocalist's vibration

27: Storyteller

28: Afternoon performance
Down
1: Easter preceder?

2: Cut a cord

3: Light, sweet bread roll

4: 'Golly!'

5: Marine, or impediment for Dracula?

6: Generation separator

7: Bearing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled

8: Main circuit card in a computer

11: SPRING

13: Fashionable doggy?

14: That woman

15: Needed

18: Freedom, briefly

20: Spooky to the max

22: Pun reaction, perhaps

24: Have some ham

25: Cruise or Brokaw

26: Vein contents




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