Crossword for Thu, 8/Aug/2019

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Across
2: Wife of a duke

6: Portended

8: Batman's buddy

9: Version

11: Accept two contradictory ideas at the same time

12: In need of fuel

13: Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners?

16: Cap with a pompon

17: Bounce like a buoy

19: Golda Meir, e.g.

21: Feeling bad

22: Cord in some backyards

25: Speculative stock, or Dracula when hopped-up?

26: Price milieu

27: Alloy of copper and zinc

28: Sounds the hour

Down
1: Realm

2: Corrupt morally

3: Secret meetings

4: White-plumed bird

5: Easily offended

6: To the point

7: Small amount

10: Broadcast journalist

13: Infantile

14: Elgar's 'The Apostles' and 'The Kingdom'

15: Villagers

18: Oscar Mayer product

20: Damsels

22: Bistros

23: Person with a job

24: Shake an Etch A Sketch





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