Crossword for Sun, 25/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Hazarding a guess: manager of a political candidate?

5: Klutz

7: Whole number

9: Nature lover

11: Cover with a hard coating

13: Nosed around

14: Bent out of shape

16: Underground channel

17: Parts of a meter

19: Car without brakes, say

21: Didn't heed

23: Kept to oneself?

25: Elsa, for one

26: Lightest metal

28: Encouraging word

29: Oater ambusher
Down
1: Crhme de la crhme

2: Down a submarine

3: Vexed

4: Things

5: Subdued

6: Educational excursion

8: Thin and angular

10: Keeps a brisk pace

12: Like a solemn observance

14: At first

15: Final shot

18: Junket

20: What you gotta have, in a 'Damn Yankees' song

22: How much one can take

24: Hesitate

27: Squirt from an octopus




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