Crossword for Thu, 24/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Beat walker

3: Bring back together

8: Street urchin

9: Globe

11: Unity

12: Hunting cry

14: One who keeps dropping things

16: Daydreaming

21: Apprentice, for one

23: Like wine bottles

24: Used a spade

25: Jumping-off place?

27: They're hot

28: Diminutive dog
Down
1: Minor player, so to speak

2: Mint or thyme, e.g.

3: Show approval for, in a way

4: Demanding

5: New wrinkle

6: Mischievous troublemaker

7: Painkiller

10: Thrive

13: Shilly-shallied

15: Like some photographers and writers

17: Fruit basket staples

18: Beginning

19: Wets one's whistle

20: Knightly

22: Out in the sticks

26: Unproductive




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