Crossword for Thu, 23/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Dull knives

6: Live coal

9: Morning aftertaste

10: First zoo?

11: Not that good

12: Annoyed

13: Fancy necktie

15: Primitive timepiece

17: Frizz tamer

19: Country bumpkin

20: Symbols of defeat

21: One who moves to another country

24: It's for the course?

25: Water moccasin

27: Denominations

28: Drainers and strainers
Down
1: One without a conscience

2: Knot again

3: Love affair

4: Shade tree

5: Bread for which San Francisco is famous

6: Reverberant

7: Gambler's game, perhaps

8: Smoothed the soil

14: Knightly

15: Serving to make a point

16: Irregular marks

18: Divides evenly

20: Captures via VCR

22: Street urchin

23: Divert

26: Well-produced commodity?




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