Crossword for Wed, 4/Jan/2023

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Across
1: P.D.Q.

6: Hidden drawback

9: '... and a cast of __'

10: Spaces with skylights

11: Stiff-necked

12: Frank or Joe of boys' books

14: Like some interpretations

15: Owns

17: Something to fiddle with

19: Coolio's genre

21: Rocker Stewart

22: It can be stolen

23: Shift shape

24: Protective head gear

25: 'When pigs fly!'

27: Snow fall?

28: Delicious

29: Mental aberration

Down
1: Hardly fine literature

2: Dazzling performer

3: Mean-spirited

4: Certain layabout

5: Come after

6: Collapsed suddenly, as the stock market

7: Roofer's supply

8: Theatrical bad guy

13: Gawks

16: Like a couch potato

18: Some combatants

20: Nonsmoking area rarity

22: Stand

23: Time, according to Benjamin Franklin

24: Head cover

26: Vigor go-with





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