Crossword for Tue, 3/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Where some diplomats work

6: Rule of conduct

9: Diatribes

10: Represent onstage

12: Excessively distressed

13: Lower, as lights

14: Blooper

15: Scheduled

16: School concert group

17: Musical pitches

18: For each

20: Draw out a substance with water

21: Palindromic preposition

22: Roundabout expression

23: Map legend, usually

24: Absolutely sure

25: Unselfish sort

26: Doctor's specialty
Down
2: Worst one to handle packages

3: Dull knives

4: Like almanacs, usually

5: Half a tick

6: Track tournaments

7: Change

8: Daydreaming

11: Input for a recorder

16: What impatient children do?

18: Layered dessert

19: Succeed

22: 'Sledgehammer' singer Gabriel




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