Crossword for Tue, 2/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Picks up

5: Juicy morsels

9: Most puzzle constructors

10: Cyclotron bit

11: Work from home, in a way

14: Highest

15: Crowd around noisily

16: Part of CBS: Abbr.

17: Highlander's cap

19: 'Come again?'

20: Stein relative

23: Marine, or impediment for Dracula?

24: Many, many moons

25: Extremely sad films

28: Spinning-wheel attachment

29: Cons
Down
1: Shortage

2: ''Rock-a-Bye Baby'' locale

3: 'Silent' prez, familiarly

4: George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush

5: Heat-of-the-moment determiner

6: Free-for-all

7: Gelidity

8: Beethoven's 'Appassionata' et al.

12: King Richard's epithet

13: Slogan

17: Poseidon's weapon

18: Hodgepodge

21: Short stockings

22: Stops

26: Fruity spread

27: Turn tail




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