Crossword for Mon, 7/Feb/2022

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Across
1: Culls

5: Fall back

9: One who keeps dropping things

10: It may be academic

11: Understand

14: Spur wheel

15: Assigned authority

16: Gross irreverence

20: Strips

21: NPR has none

22: Less couth

23: Input for a recorder

25: Sharp retort

26: Beethoven's 'Appassionata' et al.

Down
1: Concerns for ecologists

2: Poem with a jubjub bird and a tumtum tree

3: Stronghold

4: Like some delicious crabs

5: Proposer's fear

6: Medicinal root

7: Palindromic preposition

8: Part of CBS (Abbr.)

12: Conflicting flavors

13: Hardworking

17: Adult insects

18: Put in chains

19: Lets slide

20: Light four-wheeled carriage

23: Tune

24: Tango maneuver





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