Crossword for Sun, 19/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Pick up the check

4: Ear bone

9: Admonished

10: South African plain

11: Bell-shaped flower

12: Paused

13: Hotel freebie

15: Make a circle around

16: Puzzle magazine with a Pencilwise section

17: Mileage counters

18: Dogged

20: Healed

23: It requires no proof

24: Gathered

26: Drillmaster? (and a hint at this puzzle's theme)

27: Pelvic bones
Down
2: Sweet'N Low alternative

3: Some auto parts

4: Gluttony, e.g.

5: Hardworking

6: Girder securer

7: Tasty

8: Precedes in time

9: Siamese or Persian

12: Tough-skinned mammals

13: Try to avert a strike

14: Females, collectively

15: Conquers

19: Aromatic seed

21: Thing of the past

22: Pops

25: Primed




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