Crossword for Mon, 4/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Professionals who might get your back up?

8: Flabbergasted

10: Tune

11: Concerns for ecologists

12: Expressed in words

13: Realm

16: 'Come on in'

19: Diminutive pet

21: Iterative

23: Rogue

24: BIG DIPPER

25: Mottled inlay material
Down
1: Tart fruit

2: Shed some light on

3: Bodies of work

4: St. Louis athlete, informally

5: Beat in a gunfight

6: Swings around

7: Accepts uncomplainingly

9: Send, as to a specialist

14: Reserve

15: Risk taker

17: Kind of cuff

18: Mercury, for one

19: Cheers

20: Tile arrangements

21: Synopsize

22: Wine grape




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