Crossword for Wed, 20/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Walked heavily

3: Broad thoroughfare

7: Boxed

10: Harmonious connection

11: More than big

12: Novel setting for Solzhenitsyn

13: Laconian serf

14: Stuffed tubes

17: In the same vein

20: His and her

22: 'Gotcha,' more formally

24: One beyond belief?

25: High level of respectability

26: Telepath's transmission

27: Like some harmonies or haircuts

28: Warbled
Down
1: Holds dear

2: After delivery

3: Ideal

4: Beat back

5: Daydreaming

6: Everest creatures

8: Scot-free

9: Night vision

15: Slogan

16: Vexed

18: Annie, for one

19: You may get a rise out of it

21: Like a primer

23: '___ words were never spoken'




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