Crossword for Fri, 5/May/2023

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Across
1: More likely to mouth off

4: Metalworker's tool

9: Pun reaction, perhaps

10: Very wicked

11: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

12: Really soaked

15: Straight up

17: Accidental decline

19: Night cover?

20: BIG DIPPER

26: Pregnancy division

27: West Indies dance

28: Left orbit

29: Sahara stopover
Down
1: Track transaction

2: Buttinsky

3: CandW's Travis

4: Banquette

5: Informal

6: Alfresco area

7: How the claustrophobic prefer it

8: Paused

12: Lawyer in London

13: Beer source

14: Reader of punch cards

16: Prior to, to Prior

18: Implore

21: Far from worldly

22: Bitterly pungent

23: Block house?

24: John, Paul, George and Ringo, e.g.

25: Stenches




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