Crossword for Fri, 2/Jun/2023

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Across
1: Culls

5: Kind of pencil that halts bleeding

7: One with very little womb room

8: Upper limit

10: Sculptor's medium, perhaps

11: Poets' feet

12: They pass the plate?

14: Puffy cloud

15: Prom dress material

17: French vegetables

20: Opera highlights

21: Robot's lack

23: Fellow

24: Jumped too far

25: Seesaw part

26: Tried

Down
1: Caulks again, e.g.

2: Closeness

3: Mission of a sort

4: Wet impact sound

5: Like 'Billionaires for Bush'

6: Element used in alloys

8: Scot-free

9: Stations

13: Haboob, e.g.

15: Stake

16: More fastidious

18: Bentley features

19: Came down hard?

22: Sibling's daughter





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