Crossword for Sat, 22/Oct/2022

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Across
1: Exploited, slangily

5: Bach's 'Coffee ___'

9: Steady customer

10: Extend

11: Change

14: More with it

15: Most moronic

16: Chopin works

18: Convoy vehicles

21: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

23: Holds out a carrot to

25: Rotating shaft, e.g.

26: Wanted

27: 7 or 11, in craps
Down
1: Soap operas, for example

2: Treatment plan

3: Rehearsal

4: Semolina source

6: Easter preceder?

7: Performer

8: Can opener?

10: Baby bean plants

12: Entourage member, sometimes

13: Barfly

15: Outdoor acquisitions

16: Fuzz

17: Hockey team coached by Wayne Gretzky

19: Bullfighter

20: Like Max Ernst's art

22: Match play?

23: Wrap up

24: Varlet




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