Crossword for Mon, 25/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Varnish ingredient

4: Coordination centers

9: Chopin works

10: Ill-mannered types

11: Tests for quality

13: Looooong time

14: Nickname

16: Pains in the neck

17: More contemptible

19: Transparent quality

22: Electrician's mantra?

23: Hollywood success

25: Lay into

26: Educational excursion

28: Vortex

29: Ding-a-lings
Down
2: Give in

3: Less well-behaved

4: Put up preserves

5: Varnish ingredient

6: Bundles of hay

7: Resting place?

8: They're often okay

9: Lecture souvenirs

12: Supporting bracket

15: Make a slight adjustment to

16: Prevailed upon

17: Open up, as a flower

18: '___ To Watch Over Me'

20: Came in

21: Backpack part

23: ___ one's time (waits)

24: Proposal

27: Massachusetts' state tree




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