Crossword for Thu, 4/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Soaked through and through

6: Emulated Elsie

8: Primitive timepiece

9: NASCAR car sticker

11: Four-poster, e.g.

12: Solar system model

13: Roll-on alternative

14: Player's peg

15: Meal starter?

16: Golf range surface

17: Hinny's kin

19: Like some walls

21: Betray

22: Rotating machine part

24: Personal preferences

25: Mistaken

27: Seeps slowly

28: After-dinner drink
Down
1: Madras master

2: Flabbergasted

3: Tabloid

4: Woe

5: Dinner course

6: Propose a compromise

7: Set the boundaries of

10: Professionals who might get your back up?

12: Ballet step

13: Bony-plated beast

17: World records?

18: Triumph

19: Write code

20: Ballet step

23: En ___ (all together)

26: Court partition




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