Crossword for Wed, 28/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Ancestors

5: French sculptor Edgar

8: Pretty pitiful

9: Water moccasin

11: State tree of Texas

12: Outburst of controversy

13: Ocean motions

15: Nonstop

18: Singers

20: Member of a secret order

23: Less well-behaved

26: Be taken with

27: Construction site creation

28: Costa del ___

29: Poverty-stricken

30: Scrap metal sites
Down
1: Hard-to-please type

2: Cut down

3: Strips in a club?

4: Dig finds

5: Floor models

6: Insulin regulates the amount of it in the blood

7: Sly plots

10: Backwash creator

14: Impresario Hurok

16: Claim

17: Spreading tree

18: Hunter's meat

19: Gung-ho campaign

21: Advertiser

22: Teases

24: Of considerable weight

25: Under the weather

26: Hot under the collar




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