Crossword for Sun, 31/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Make rougher

5: Escape

9: Disseminate

11: Own the throne

12: Hot dog ingredient

13: Turn of work

15: Playing partners

17: Be a ham

18: First symptoms

20: Office fastener

23: Frighten

24: One way or another

26: Mutt

27: More in need of oil

28: Descriptor for chapped hands

29: Refined, as metal
Down
1: Pride of the kitchen, perhaps

2: In progress

3: Pitching style

4: Least sloppy

6: Earthly

7: Physical therapy device

8: Craving

10: Lab jobs

14: Subdued

16: Their job is taxing

19: Coffeehouse alternative

20: Strips

21: Only North American marsupials

22: Run riot

25: Device for heavy lifting

26: Goalie's protection




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