Crossword for Sat, 7/May/2022

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Across
1: Stalactite sites

4: Upper limit

7: Sensory system components

9: Opening remarks

10: Graduate

11: 'Don't judge a book by ___ cover'

12: Maiden name preceder

13: Modern writers' aids

15: Cowardly, in slang

20: Brown paper container

21: Rocks, at a bar

22: Classic party game

23: 'Wicked' prop

24: Vehicle on Boston's Green Line

25: Put hair dressing on

26: Plague swarm
Down
1: Conviction

2: Suckers?

3: Kind of support

4: Handel oratorio

5: Afternoon performance

6: Squirrel's partner, in cartoons

8: Extreme confusion and disorder

9: Waiter's deduction (Part 2)

14: Some hats

16: Compact's lack

17: Touched by an angel

18: Unvarnished

19: Picks up

20: Monk's music




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