Crossword for Wed, 2/May/2018

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Across
1: Water conveyance

6: Hanker (for)

8: Shot giver

9: Prepare for surgery

11: Water flowers

12: Show approval for, in a way

13: Unshockable

17: Sussex suds

18: Check

19: Carpenters visit them

20: ''Thanks'' (with ''much'')

22: Official discharge

25: Freestyle wrestling, for one

26: Opponent of government

27: Tense (with 'up')

28: Lamb and Bacon, e.g.

Down
2: White-plumed bird

3: Encounters

4: Doesn't want to be found

5: Game bird

6: Beatles classic

7: Condor condo?

8: Campanologist's pants?

10: Like some memories

14: Eyeball

15: Assigned authority

16: Instantaneous

17: Auto option, informally

21: Certifiable, so to speak

22: Backs

23: Auspicious

24: Diva deliveries





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