Crossword for Thu, 3/Dec/2020

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Across
2: Address an audience

5: Speech

8: Did some picking

9: Peyote

11: Hazarding a guess: sidewalk engineer?

12: Miner's find

13: Decry

16: Cut, as an athlete

17: Isn't supporting

18: Hardly fine literature

19: '... ___ I saw Elba'

20: Extremely sad films

23: Understanding

25: Value highly

26: Ahead

27: Perhaps
Down
1: Hang like basset hound ears

2: Eight-piece band

3: Input for a recorder

4: Shade tree

5: Showing self-restraint

6: View from the top?

7: Practically any bird, e.g.

10: The story of my life?

13: Bold outlaw

14: Crop protector

15: Pacifying people

21: One of the Four Hundred

22: Shorthand pro

24: Petty who fronts The Heartbreakers




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