Crossword for Mon, 20/Dec/2021

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Across
1: Foamy pick-me-up

4: Finding one takes a 'hail' of an effort

6: Outspoken

9: Harp on

10: The Kansas City Star and Baltimore Sun, e.g.

11: OutKast's genre

12: Saxophonist's jacket?

14: Ideal

16: Public speaker's skill

19: Daggerlike gun attachment

20: Computer information unit

21: Rehearsal

24: Smidge

26: Plunge

28: Lunch box item, perhaps

29: First man-made textile fiber

30: Debussy's 'La ___'

31: Invalidate legally
Down
1: Cabinet department

2: Brain picking?

3: Plumber's fitting

4: Ship's clock

5: Good, ironically, in slang

6: Phone convenience

7: Aperture

8: Certain beam

13: Hollywood success

14: Sphere

15: Revolutionary War figure

17: Government investigator

18: In the time left

21: Windshield cleaner

22: Rotten or contemptible

23: 'Laughing' predator

25: Like a primer

27: Scottish cap




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