Crossword for Thu, 8/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Poem with a jubjub bird and a tumtum tree

6: Finder's charge

8: Telling of a story

9: Pipsqueak

10: Medical protocol

12: 'Sledgehammer' singer Gabriel

14: Brings back on board

16: Hindrance

17: Storm omen

18: They sometimes purr

20: Fencing rapiers

21: Creepy creature

23: Advent

26: Buck

27: Shell propeller

28: Player piano
Down
1: Willy on 'The Simpsons'

2: Old-time saloon

3: Cede

4: Inmate dining section?

5: In the time left

6: Agent's 15%, e.g.

7: Kind of butterfly

11: Engineer read its diatribes (7)

12: Ideal

13: Measure using trigonometry

15: Part of SAC

17: Vocal vibrato

19: Ease

22: Four-time Kent portrayer

24: Round Table title

25: Half a score




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