Crossword for Wed, 4/Jul/2018

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Across
1: Holds out a carrot to

5: Temporary substitute

8: Booby, for one

9: 'Down under' marsupial

11: Make dots

12: Seduce

14: November winners

15: They help some to come out of their shells

16: First choices

19: NPR has none

20: Went to extremes

22: Rubber band

24: ER trainee (var.)

26: Mimic

27: Built

28: Fish-eating birds
Down
1: Lightens, as a burden

2: Lost persons seekers

3: Small potatoes

4: 'The ___ are these, 'It might have been'' (Whittier)

5: Cut a cord

6: Temple student

7: Common schizophrenia condition

10: Color of a cloudless sky

13: Effusively friendly person

14: Make it up as you go

17: Wield

18: Involuntary

19: It may be genuine

21: Hate the thought of

23: Writes up

25: Wharf pest




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