Crossword for Wed, 30/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Country bumpkin

5: Fortune tellers

9: Wretched

10: Point the finger at

11: Slender daggers

14: Heavens

15: Put out of place, as a shoulder

17: Opposite of recto

19: Go to pot

20: Take back due to nonpayment

21: Court proceeding

23: They're used at truck stops

26: Covered with creepers

27: One watching a TV test pattern, perhaps

30: Most profound

31: Sneaky plots
Down
1: Great Lakes acronym

2: 'Sure thing!'

3: Transgress

4: Red ink entry

5: Ignore the alarm

6: Walk leisurely

7: Marine

8: Scrooge's expression

12: Waiter's deduction (Part 2)

13: Wood that sinks in water

15: Abe, to Tad

16: High wire performer

17: Eye protector

18: Photo ___ (campaign activities)

21: Sampled

22: Serve gazpacho

24: They're red in a greeting card rhyme

25: The Amish, the Shakers, et al.

28: Speed meas.

29: Suffix with cynic




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