Crossword for Mon, 21/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Panel member

4: Bouquet

9: Wrongdoer's bane

11: Shortage

12: Type of can

13: Cop show sound effect

14: and

18: Finch variety

19: Highway haulers

20: Retribution seeker

23: Engineer read its diatribes (7)

25: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

27: Ruinous failures

28: Fleeced

Down
1: Chattered away

2: Strengthen

3: Taciturnity

5: 100%

6: Less experienced

7: Expected outcomes

8: Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas

10: Contest contestant

13: Kept up

15: Morally strict

16: Holds back

17: Bony-plated beast

21: Plumber's fitting

22: Brusque and surly

24: Flaw

26: Everything included





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