Crossword for Thu, 22/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Put off

4: Internet user's concern

9: Tests for quality

10: Chess pieces

11: Train station

13: Get ready

14: Costa del ___

16: Pride of the kitchen, perhaps

18: Kind of returns

21: Sorrowful

23: Napa Valley figure

25: Third rock from the sun

27: Disappoint (with ''down'')

28: Woodworking technique

30: Owns

31: Rue the loss of
Down
1: Highway nuisances

2: Discovered

3: Sound of a fan

4: Washroom fixture

5: Bowling game component

6: Squander

7: Bearings

8: Harry at home

12: Some kind of a nut

15: Mica, shale, and butcher block

17: Comerica Park ballplayer

18: Promote the growth of

19: Develops quickly

20: Cooks up

22: ___ Fist (kung fu style)

24: Mother-of-pearl

26: Three lines, perhaps

29: Zodiac animal




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