Crossword for Wed, 3/May/2023

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Across
1: Foolish

5: Learned type

8: Accepts uncomplainingly

9: Place for a cold one

10: Approaches

12: Repress or suppress

15: Misanthrope

16: Title that's Persian for 'sign of God'

17: Simba and Nala

19: Workers

20: Stubborn

22: Hidden trove

23: Stretched

24: Make changes to

25: Droop

26: Plot device

28: Beat in a gunfight

29: Hot or cool

Down
1: Overlords

2: Finish, as a comic strip

3: They're inhuman

4: Draw into a conflict

5: Sit on one's heels

6: Comforting support

7: Staircase component

11: He's out of this world

13: Alpine peril

14: One looking for trouble, in a way

18: Leadfoot

20: Supervised

21: Type of measure

22: Doctrine of belief

26: Screw thread cutter

27: Hardly hale





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