Crossword for Mon, 7/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Small wonder

3: Suggests, with 'at'

5: Represent onstage

8: Gavel pounder's demand

9: 2000 film garnering Best Picture and Best Actor honors

11: Water balloon impact sound

12: Device

13: Up a tree, maybe

15: Nonwoody vegetation

16: Kind of comb

18: Shellfish selection

20: 1966 Peck/Loren spy thriller

21: Provide with a source of income

24: Sentry's attribute

25: Seeps slowly

26: Tryouts

27: Schlepped

28: Pt. of CBS

Down
1: Total before deductions

2: Purple Heart, e.g.

3: Sports car option

4: SWAT team specialists

6: Water down

7: Short quality

9: Like many stump speeches

10: Less friendly

13: Shrew

14: They consume hill inhabitants

17: Head off

19: Banned substance at the Olympics

22: Nods off

23: Flyers with narrow waists





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