Crossword for Mon, 25/Feb/2019

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Across
1: Cut classes at first and used a pogo stick (7)

5: Funeral hymn

8: Skeptical

9: Huck, to Tom

10: General rule

11: Hide away

12: Pole position, e.g.

14: Follow suit

15: Takes turns

17: Rope in a ship's rigging

19: Tongue-tie

20: Complain in a whiny manner

21: Usher's beat

22: White wading bird

24: Dennis the Menace, e.g.

25: Birdbrain

26: It's a drag on a gown

27: Forest bird
Down
1: Heavenly

2: Working

3: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

4: Get off on the tarmac

5: Add to one's family

6: Many, many moons

7: Spirit in a bottle

10: BIG DIPPER

13: Stupefying

16: Practically any bird, e.g.

18: What you choose to say

19: Large Le Creuset vessel

20: Obscenity substitute, perhaps

23: Despicable person




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