Crossword for Fri, 8/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Watch chain

3: 'O frabjous day!' source

9: Stats found in baseball, basketball and hockey

10: Wishing and hoping

11: Put a counter to zero

13: Serve better

14: Dizzy's jazz genre

16: Hardly hale

17: Kelp, e.g.

18: Remove impurities

19: Moisten

20: Like many a villain

21: Only North American marsupials

22: Bride's worldly possessions

25: Gizmos

27: Used needles

29: Carpenters visit them

30: Costa del ___
Down
1: Natural ability

2: Outshines

3: French dip dip

4: They're hot

5: Work unit

6: Compassionate

7: Sympathetic supporters

8: Beatles classic

12: Measure using trigonometry

13: Oater ambusher

14: Retreat

15: Where the fourth estate gets briefed

23: Charlie of the Rolling Stones

24: Alpine aria

26: Surreptitious

28: November winners




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