Crossword for Thu, 26/Dec/2019

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Across
1: Some refrigerator contents

9: Writes up

10: Self-restrained

11: Impress

13: It must be carefully balanced

14: South African plain

15: Distress calls

16: More nuts

17: Like some trigger fingers

19: Tomorrow's dinner, maybe

20: Escritoires

22: 'Pirates of the Caribbean' weapons

24: Discovered

25: Fashionable doggy?
Down
1: Treaties

2: Kind of comb

3: Pt. of CBS

4: Group of scenes

5: Carpenters visit them

6: Prohibition-era fixtures

7: Uses judgment

8: Secede from the Union, e.g.

12: Hazarding a guess: sidewalk engineer?

13: Express sympathy

14: Singers

16: Political liberal

18: Wimbledon Cup sport

21: Lowest point

23: Somber

24: Finder's charge




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