Crossword for Thu, 25/Mar/2021

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Across
1: Offered one's seat

4: Fit for ships

9: Bit of information

10: Inmate dining section?

11: Disinfect

12: Hallow

14: Topmost neck vertebra

15: Boston Pops, e.g.

17: Test administrators

19: Fronton fare

22: Heathen

23: With a smile

24: One with an ace up his sleeve?

27: Shiftless sort

28: Naturally occurring potassium nitrate

29: Gridiron units

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2: Grayish-fawn

3: Kind of returns

4: Player piano

5: French wine

6: 'I ___ You Babe' (Sonny and Cher hit)

7: Helped out Mom and Dad, in a way

8: Upright

9: Aver

12: Effusively friendly person

13: Lightning

16: Metal tester

18: Clothing

20: Fruity dessert

21: Pursuits of good reporters

25: Fool

26: Gallery display





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