Crossword for Thu, 7/Dec/2023

1
 
 
 
2
 
 
 
3
 
 
 
4
 
 
 
5
 
 
 
6
 
7
 
 
 
8
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
 
 
14
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
 
 
18
 
 
 
19
 
20
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
1: Formulaic writing

7: Four-poster, e.g.

9: Scrutinized

10: Varlet

11: Fashionable doggy?

12: Match, in poker

13: Large antelope

15: One who mixes with Jim, Jack and Johnny?

16: Translate

20: Lab jobs

22: Half a score

23: Lewis Carroll poem

25: Go down

26: Site of the first nationally televised college basketball game

27: Musical note

28: Promotional lotteries
Down
1: Liable to crack

2: Magazine unit

3: Touched up

4: Seasoning vegetable

5: Reviewer of books

6: Back

7: Rumps, informally

8: Funeral hymn

14: Before birth

17: Culls

18: Chest protector

19: Rural skyline element

20: Harbor vessel

21: Artifice

22: Auditions

24: Frog's sound




Solution (Reversed)
D
E
B
E
T
A
L
P
R
E
L
I
O
B
I
A
N
U
O
M
S
R
R
U
C
D
D
E
T
C
E
P
S
N
I
G
K
O
I
H
N
U
T
E
E
S
R
E
T
T
E
S
D
N
E
R
T
I
S
O
R
E
L
R
E
D
N
E
T
R
A
B
D
N
A
L
E
E
N
S
T
S
E
T
T
E
R
P
R
E
T
N
I
L
O
R
I
E
E
Y
K
C
O
W
R
E
B
B
A
J
N
E
T
N
R
B
E
C
E
A
E
E
M
O
D
O
R
T
S
A
C
T
E
S
S
A
A
O
G
T
A
T
S
E
K
A
T
S
P
E
E
W
S
L
O
S