Crossword for Sat, 7/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Booby, for one

5: Impetuous one

9: Flabbergasted

11: Excellent speaker

12: Undivided

13: Fiery offense

14: Battery boosts

17: Academician

19: Oscar or Emmy

21: Tease mercilessly

22: Saxophonist's jacket?

25: Like many stump speeches

26: Ancient two-leaved tablet

27: Germfree state
Down
1: Surfer's stops

2: Charms

3: Laziness

4: Buns or bums

6: '___ words were never spoken'

7: Man in a lodge

8: Diminished

10: Small child

12: www.pbs.___

13: Connecting symbol

15: Coordination centers

16: 1966 Peck/Loren spy thriller

18: Assn.

20: Short stockings

22: Tuckered out

23: Silent sayso

24: Ceremonies

25: Area between outfielders




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