Crossword for Fri, 24/May/2024

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Across
1: Part of CBS (Abbr.)

3: Slogan

8: Walks laboriously

11: New venture

12: Ask for change

13: Dander

14: Smoothed the soil

15: Young vegetable shoot

17: Gus McRae's occupation in 'Lonesome Dove'

19: Obstinate animals

21: Formerly called

22: Persecuted

24: Supplicate

25: School where the Talmud is studied

26: Iterative

27: Wrigley Field grower
Down
1: Arrange the outcome

2: First satellite

4: Dispatch

5: Insincere ladies' men

6: Almost ready to deal

7: They don't make many stops

9: Like many stump speeches

10: Pitching style

14: Deft storyteller

16: Striking array

18: Cradle locale, in a lullaby

20: Sushi bar order

22: Eight-piece band

23: Memoir of a sort




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