Crossword for Fri, 20/Aug/2021

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Across
1: Frizz tamer

4: Sea anemone, e.g.

7: Sports car option

10: Magazine feature

11: Bleacher creature?

12: Depression that results in a letter

13: Certain layabout

15: Cavalry weapon

16: Slender stingers

18: Lacking free oxygen

20: Stamp collecting

22: TGIF part

23: Dishonesty

24: Wizard's study

26: Perch

27: Villagers
Down
1: ''Wha'd'ja say?''

2: It's a dyeing art

3: Insincere ladies' men

4: Hardly fine literature

5: Stand

6: First choices

8: Type of nose, or ear-lender

9: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

11: Oater ambusher

14: Showing self-restraint

17: Provider of top notes

19: Neutral shade

21: Gridiron units

25: Jabber




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