Crossword for Tue, 8/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Pollen spreader

3: King Richard I, they say

8: It can be saved and cured

9: Conviction

10: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

12: Wild criticism

14: Hotel helper

17: Jazz band instrumentalists

18: Takes offense at

20: Flabbergasted

23: Shapely timekeeper's gauge?

25: Word with worm or moth

26: Ophthalmologist's supply

27: Fancy affairs
Down
1: Dizzy Gillespie's genre

2: Ciphered

3: Brown bag contents

4: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

5: Belladonna lily

6: Something to believe in

7: Senior member

9: Subdued

11: Perfume fixative

12: Faux follower

13: North German citizen

15: Took many courses

16: 'Sure thing!'

19: Earth tone

20: Brownish gray

21: Comes down hard

22: Varieties

24: Nile biter




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