Crossword for Fri, 19/May/2017

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Across
1: Group of eight

4: Squeezebox

9: Golf expendable

10: Tacks on

11: Palindromic preposition

12: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

14: Single-masted sailing vessel

15: Short quality

16: Connecting symbol

20: Kind of down

23: Understanding

24: Lower, as lights

26: Expulsion

27: Half a score

28: Almost firm

29: Somber tune
Down
1: Relative of a nautilus

2: Idol worshipper?

3: Coffeehouse alternative

4: Material that coats arteries

5: Greek horse/man

6: What hairdressers do

7: Sculpture material

8: Down on one's luck

13: Fashionable canine?

17: Carnivorous birds

18: Deodorant type

19: Disparaged

20: Developed

21: Group around a VIP

22: Keeps secret

25: May celebrant




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