Crossword for Sat, 24/Dec/2022

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Across
2: Crush the spirit

6: ___ Carta

8: Snooker stick

9: Like God

11: Developing

12: Use a clamp, say

14: '... __ darkness comes on': Bartram

15: Bulldozers, e.g.

18: Scalawag

21: Kind of card or ball

22: Victorian virtue

24: Shilly-shallied

25: Bombshell

27: Third of October?

28: Chichi

29: Fails to support
Down
1: Deft storyteller

2: Ignore the alarm

3: First choices

4: German prince

5: Challenge for a dry cleaner

6: Short manuscripts

7: Figurative albatross with a golden sound?

10: Beefeater, e.g.

13: SPRING

16: Intensifies

17: Most like a rock

19: Like some harmonies or haircuts

20: Where smoking jackets are worn

22: Came upon

23: Uncertainty

26: Like some martinis




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